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διακοντίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διακοντίζομαι

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

Sense

  1. to contend with others at throwing the javelin

Conjugation

Present 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 διατοξεύεσθαι καὶ διακοντίζεσθαι τῷ τῶν παιδίων παιδαγωγῷ καὶ ἅμα μανθάνειν παρ’ αὑτοῦ παραινεῖν, ὡσ ἂν καὶ ἐκείνου μὴ ἐπισταμένου. (Theophrastus, Characters, 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend with others at throwing the javelin

Derived

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

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