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φιλόνεικος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόνεικος φιλόνεικον

Structure: φιλονεικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of strife, eager for strife, contentious
  2. emulous, in eager rivalry

Examples

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ Σωκράτη φαίην ἂν ἔγωγε ὡσ ἐποίησεν Ἀθηναίουσ λάλουσ καὶ φιλονείκουσ, ὅτι πλεῖστα Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ τῶν τραπεζῶν καὶ τῶν ἐργαστηρίων διελέγετο καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀστοὺσ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ξένουσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 19:8)

Related

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

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