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φιλοτιμέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοτιμέομαι

Structure: φιλοτιμέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: filo/timos

Sense

  1. to love or seek after honour, to be ambitious, emulous, jealous, to be jealous, to pride oneself, pursuing, object of ambition
  2. to strive eagerly and emulously to do, endeavour earnestly, aspire, to be anxious that . .

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

  • ἐφ’ οἷσ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι ποιοῦντεσ ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο, ταῦτα δικαίωσ ἂν ὑμεῖσ ἀκούσαντεσ ἀποδέχοισθε. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 132:3)
  • πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πολιτῶν, διὰ τὴν ἀρετὴν τοῦ Ἀγησιλάου καὶ τὸ συντετράφθαι καὶ μετεσχηκέναι τῆσ ἀγωγῆσ, ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο καὶ συνέπραττον αὐτῷ προθύμωσ. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 3 3:2)
  • "πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ οἶκοι κατεσκευάζοντο κυκλοτερεῖσ, ἵνα πάντεσ εἰσ τὸ μέσον τοῦ κοττάβου τεθέντοσ ἐξ ἀποστήματοσ ἴσου καὶ τόπων ὁμοίων ἀγωνίζοιντο περὶ τῆσ νίκησ, οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο βάλλειν ἐπὶ τὸν σκοπόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ καλῶσ ἕκαστα ἀνύτειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 58 1:3)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ἀλκέταν πυθόμενοι τὴν παρουσίαν τῶν πολεμίων τὴν μὲν φάλαγγα ταχέωσ ἐξέταξαν, τοῖσ δ’ ἱππεῦσι προσπεσόντεσ τοῖσ τὴν ἀκρώρειαν προκατέχουσιν ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο βίᾳ κρατῆσαι καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀκρολοφίασ ἐκβαλεῖν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 44 3:1)
  • οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐκβληθέντεσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ κατέφυγον πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Πολυπέρχοντοσ καὶ διὰ τούτου τὴν σωτηρίαν ἑαυτοῖσ πορίζειν ἐφιλοτιμοῦντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 66 1:1)

Derived

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

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