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

  • τούτῳ μὲν οὖν τῷ γένει καὶ διεμάχετο Πλάτων ὡσ ὄντι γεωμετρικῷ δόγματι, ἀλλ’ ἐκάλει ἀρχὴν γραμμῆσ ‐ τοῦτο δὲ πολλάκισ ἐτίθει ‐ τὰσ ἀτόμουσ γραμμάσ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 226:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι φυτευόμενοσ ἐξίστατο καὶ ἀπηγόρευεν, εὖ γε ποιῶν ὁ γενναῖοσ οὗτοσ, ὅτι Βοιωτίου θεοῦ πελάτησ καὶ παράσιτοσ ὢν οὐκ ἐβούλετο μετοικεῖν ἐν βαρβάροισ, οὐδ’ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐζήλωσεν ἐξοικειούμενον ἐκείνοισ τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν, ἀλλ’ ἔφευγε καὶ διεμάχετο πρὸσ τὴν ἀποξένωσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:19)
  • Βοί̈σκοσ γοῦν ὁ πύκτησ ὁ Θετταλὸσ τότε μὲν διεμάχετο ὡσ κάμνων ἀσπίδα μὴ φέρειν, νῦν δέ, ὡσ ἀκούω, Κοτυωριτῶν πολλοὺσ ἤδη ἀποδέδυκεν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 24:1)

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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