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διαμιλλάομαι?

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration: diamillaomai

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

  • τὸν δ ὑπακοῦσαι προθύμως, οἰόμενον οὕτως ἔσεσθαι βελτίονα τὴν ἐπανόρθωσιν ἐπεὶ δ ἐμελέτησε, τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἐκπεπλῆχθαι καὶ διαμιλλᾶσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους τοῖς ἐπαίνοις, τὸν δ Ἀπολλώνιον οὔτ ἀκροώμενον αὐτοῦ διαχυθῆναι καὶ παυσαμένου σύννουν καθέζεσθαι πολὺν χρόνον, ἀχθομένου δὲ τοῦ Κικέρωνος εἰπεῖν: (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 4 4:1)
  • Σαβίνους δὲ τουτουσὶ ἔθνος τηλικοῦτον, οἷς διὰ παντὸς ὁ περὶ τῶν πρωτείων πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἦν ἀγών, ποία παρέσχεν ὑμῖν βοήθεια μηκέτι διαμιλλᾶσθαι περὶ τῶν ἴσων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 75 4:4)
  • τὰς δὲ δὴ σκιὰς ἐκείνας πάλιν εἰ δέοι αὐτὸν γνωματεύοντα διαμιλλᾶσθαι τοῖς ἀεὶ δεσμώταις ἐκείνοις, ἐν ᾧ ἀμβλυώττει, πρὶν καταστῆναι τὰ ὄμματα, οὗτος δ ὁ χρόνος μὴ πάνυ ὀλίγος εἰή τῆς συνηθείας, ἆρ οὐ γέλωτ ἂν παράσχοι, καὶ λέγοιτο ἂν περὶ αὐτοῦ ὡς ἀναβὰς ἄνω διεφθαρμένος ἥκει τὰ ὄμματα, καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἄξιον οὐδὲ πειρᾶσθαι ἄνω ἰέναι· (Plato, Republic, book 7 49:1)

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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