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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

  • χωρὶσ δὲ τῶν ἐμφανῶν τούτων ἔκνιζεν αὐτὸν οὐ μετρίωσ ὁ τοῦ παιδὸσ ἔρωσ ἐνεσταγμένοσ, εἰ καί πάνυ παρόντοσ αὐτοῦ τῷ φιλονείκῳ χρώμενοσ ἐπειρᾶτο νεανικῶσ ἀπομάχεσθαι πρὸσ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 11 5:1)

Related

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

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