Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐναντιόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

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

  • ὅσοι δ’ ἄλλοι πολιτείᾳ προσίασιν, ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐναντιοῦνται τοῖσ αὑτῶν δόγμασι· (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 31)
  • ὅτι δὲ οἱ ῥήτορεσ τῷ μὲν ὀνόματι τῆσ εἰρήνησ συγχωροῦσι, τοῖσ δ’ ἔργοισ ἀφ’ ὧν ἂν ἡ εἰρήνη γένοιτο ἐναντιοῦνται, τοῦτο δὲ οὐ πάντεσ αἰσθάνεσθε. (Andocides, Speeches, 2:2)
  • διὸ καί φασι δεῖν τοιαύτασ γίνεσθαι τὰσ λύπασ αἳ μάλιστ’ ἐναντιοῦνται ταῖσ ἀγαπωμέναισ ἡδοναῖσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 139:2)
  • τά τε γὰρ αὐτὰ καλὰ καὶ ἡδέα νομίζοντεσ ὑπὲρ τούτων μάχονται καὶ διχογνωμονοῦντεσ ἐναντιοῦνται· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 6 22:5)
  • ἴσμεν ἅπαντεσ τοῦθ’ ὅτι τὰ μὲν δίκαια πάντεσ, ἐὰν καὶ μὴ βούλωνται, μέχρι τού γ’ αἰσχύνονται μὴ πράττειν, τοῖσ δ’ ἀδίκοισ ἐναντιοῦνται φανερῶσ, ἄλλωσ τε κἄν τινεσ βλάπτωνται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 32:3)

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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