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ἐναντιόομαι?

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: enantioomai

Principal Part: ἐναντιόομαι

Structure: ἐν (Prefix) + ἀντιό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to set oneself against, oppose, withstand, refuse, prevents
  2. to contradict, gainsay
  3. to be adverse

Conjugation

Present 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

  • συνηγορῶν δὲ τούτῳ καὶ τὸν Δίωνα καταστασιάζων ἐναντιούμενον ἔπεισε τοὺς Συρακουσίους ταῦτά ψηφίσασθαι καὶ τῶν ξένων τὸν μισθὸν ἀποστερεῖν καὶ στρατηγοὺς ἑτέρους ἑλέσθαι, τῆς ἐκείνου βαρύτητος ἀπαλλαγέντας. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 37 3:2)
  • οὐκ ἔστι λῃσταῖς πνεῦμ ἐναντιούμενον, ὅταν παρῇ κλέψαι τι χἀρπάσαι βίᾳ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:13)
  • ἴσως δ οὐδὲν ἧττον καὶ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ νομιστέον εἶναί τι παρὰ τὸν λόγον, ἐναντιούμενον τούτῳ καὶ ἀντιβαῖνον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 146:3)
  • ὡς δὲ ταῦτα ἀληθῆ, ἂν κατανοῆτε, εὑρήσετε οὔτε ψέγοντα οὐδένα μᾶλλον Θηραμένους τουτουὶ τὰ παρόντα οὔτε ἐναντιούμενον, ὅταν τινὰ ἐκποδὼν βουλώμεθα ποιήσασθαι τῶν δημαγωγῶν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 33:2)
  • τὴν δὲ οὐ παντάπασι κακὴν τύχην αὐτοῦ σεβόμενον καὶ τὸν δαίμονα, ὃς αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν τρωθέντα ἐλεήσας ἀπότροπος αὐτοῖς ἐγένετο μὴ τῷ μὲν ἀνίατον ἕλκος γενέσθαι, τῷ δὲ ἐπάρατον τύχην καὶ συμφοράν, τούτῳ δὴ χάριν τῷ δαίμονι διδόντα καὶ μὴ ἐναντιούμενον, τὸν μὲν θάνατον ἀφελεῖν τοῦ τρώσαντος, μετάστασιν δὲ εἰς τὴν γείτονα πόλιν αὐτῷ γίγνεσθαι διὰ βίου, καρπούμενον ἅπασαν τὴν αὑτοῦ κτῆσιν. (Plato, Laws, book 9 155:1)

Synonyms

  1. to set oneself against

  2. to contradict

  3. to be adverse

Derived

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

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