Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διαγωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαγωνίζομαι διαγωνιοῦμαι

Structure: δι (Prefix) + ἀγωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend, struggle or fight against
  2. to fight desperately, contend earnestly

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ὅσα διαγωνίζονται πολλάκισ ἥλικεσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, οὐχ ἃ κρείττων ᾔδει ὤν, ταῦτα προυκαλεῖτο τοὺσ συνόντασ, ἀλλ’ ἅπερ εὖ ᾔδει ἑαυτὸν ἥττονα ὄντα, ἐξῆρχε, φάσκων κάλλιον αὐτῶν ποιήσειν, καὶ κατῆρχεν ἤδη ἀναπηδῶν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ ἢ διατοξευσόμενοσ ἢ διακοντιούμενοσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων οὔπω πάνυ ἔποχοσ ὤν, ἡττώμενοσ δὲ αὐτὸσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ μάλιστα ἐγέλα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 7:3)
  • καθοπλίζονται δ’ αὐτῶν οἱ μὲν ἀσπίσιν ὠμοβοΐναισ καὶ μικροῖσ δόρασιν, οἱ δὲ ἀκοντίοισ ἀναγκύλοισ, ἐνίοτε δὲ ξυλίνοισ τόξοισ τετραπήχεσιν, οἷσ τοξεύουσι μὲν τῷ ποδὶ προσβαίνοντεσ, ἀναλωθέντων δὲ τῶν οἰστῶν σκυτάλαισ ξυλίναισ διαγωνίζονται. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 8 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend

  2. to fight desperately

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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