Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διαμάχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαμάχομαι διαμαχέσομαι

Structure: δια (Prefix) + μάχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fight or strive with, struggle against, I resist to the uttermost
  2. to fight one with another
  3. to fight it out, contend obstinately
  4. to exert oneself greatly
  5. to contend or maintain

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

  • "ἐγὼ παραβάλλομαι καὶ προκινδυνεύω" καλόν, ὦ Ζεῦ, κίνδυνον οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Πελοπίδασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Θηβῶν ἐλευθερίασ ἢ ὡσ Ἁρμόδιοσ καὶ Ἀριστογείτων ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων, προεκινδύνευσεν ὁ φιλόσοφοσ ὠμῷ πολύποδι διαμαχόμενοσ, ἵνα τὸν βίον ἀποθηριώσῃ; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 6 1:1)
  • διαμαχόμενοσ γὰρ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐλαύνεται εἰσ τὸν μηρόν, ὥστε οὐδὲ ἑστάναι ἐδύνατο ὑπὸ τῆσ ὀδύνησ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 60:5)
  • διαμαχόμενοσ δὲ τοῖσ διαβάλλουσιν ἡττήθην. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 67:2)
  • "ἔπειτα ταῖσ μὲν ἄλλαισ ἡδυπαθείαισ κἂν ὁ λογισμὸσ ἐλλίπῃ διαμαχόμενοσ, ἀλλὰ τῶν παθῶν ἔνια πολλάκισ ἐμποδών ἐστι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 9:17)
  • οὐδέποτε γὰρ οὐδενὶ ἔγωγε τοῦτο ὑπεσχόμην, ὡσ ἱκανὸσ ὢν λέγειν ἢ φρονεῖν ἢ πλέον τι γιγνώσκειν τῶν πολλῶν, ἀλλ̓ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τούτου διαμαχόμενοσ ἑκάστοτε καὶ ἀντιλέγων τοῖσ ἀξιοῦσιν ἔπειτα εἰσ τὸ λέγειν καθίσταμαι· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. to fight or strive with

  2. to fight one with another

  3. to fight it out

  4. to exert oneself greatly

  5. to contend or maintain

Derived

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

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