Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἅπαντεσ μὲν οὖν οἱ μετὰ τὸν τρίτον Πτολεμαῖον ὑπὸ τρυφῆσ διεφθαρμένοι χεῖρον ἐπολιτεύσαντο, χείριστα δ’ ὁ τέταρτοσ καὶ [ὁ] ἕβδομοσ καὶ ὁ ὕστατοσ ὁ Αὐλητήσ, ὃσ χωρὶσ τῆσ ἄλλησ ἀσελγείασ χοραυλεῖν ἤσκησε, καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ γε ἐσεμνύνετο τοσοῦτον ὥστ’ οὐκ ὤκνει συντελεῖν ἀγῶνασ ἐν τοῖσ βασιλείοισ, εἰσ οὓσ παρῄει διαμιλλησόμενοσ τοῖσ ἀνταγωνισταῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 22:3)

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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