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διαμάχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: diamachomai

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

  • ΜΗ διαμάχου μετὰ ἀνθρώπου δυνάστου, μήποτε ἐμπέσῃς εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 8:1)
  • μὴ διαμάχου μετὰ ἀνθρώπου γλωσσώδους καὶ μὴ ἐπιστοιβάσῃς ἐπὶ τὸ πῦρ αὐτοῦ ξύλα. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 8:3)
  • καὶ περὶ τὴς ἀλιμενότητος τοῦ χωρίου πολλὰ ἀνέγραψεν, ὅτι ἐνταῦθα ἐκπίπτει τὰ πλοῖα χειμῶνι βιαζόμενα, καὶ οἱ Θρᾷκες οἱ πρόσχωροι ὅτι ὑπὲρ τῶν ναυαγίων ἐν σφίσιν διαμάχονται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 25 3:1)
  • εἴχομεν δέ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἡμεῖς ταύτην τὴν γνώμην, ὅτε τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἤρχομεν, καὶ ἐδοκοῦμεν καλῶς βουλεύεσθαι, περιορῶντες μὲν τὴν χώραν τεμνομένην, οὐ νομίζοντες δὲ χρῆναι περὶ αὐτῆς διαμάχεσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 6:3)
  • ἔφη γὰρ αὐτῷ μὲν δοκεῖν διαμάχεσθαι καὶ μὴ παριέναι τὸν πόλεμον εἴσω, τὰς πύλας τῆς Πελοποννήσου προεμένους, ποιήσειν δὲ τὸ δοκοῦν Ἀράτῳ: (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 15 1:2)

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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