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διαμιλλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαμιλλάομαι διαμιλλήσομαι διημιλλήθην

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

Sense

  1. to contend hotly, strive 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

  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ πανταχόθεν τῆσ ἐφόδου γενομένησ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἱκέτην ἀνατραπέντων καὶ φευγόντων, τὸ μὲν ἁλῶναι τὴν πόλιν κατ’ ἄκρασ καὶ γενέσθαι ταχέωσ ὑποχείριον ἐκπεσόντων τῶν πολεμίων δίκαιον ἀναθεῖναι τῇ τῶν μαχομένων ἀνδραγαθίᾳ καὶ τῇ δεινότητι τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, τὸ δὲ μὴ ἀποθανεῖν τινα μηδὲ τρωθῆναι τῶν Κορινθίων ἴδιον ἔργον αὑτῆσ ἡ Τιμολέοντοσ ἐπεδείξατο τύχη, καθάπερ διαμιλλωμένη πρὸσ τὴν ἀρετὴν τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ἵνα τῶν ἐπαινουμένων αὐτοῦ τὰ μακαριζόμενα μᾶλλον οἱ πυνθανόμενοι θαυμάζωσιν. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 21 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend hotly

Derived

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

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