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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

  • λόγον δὲ ἔχει τῶν θαυμαζόντων, καὶ οὓσ θαυμάζει, καὶ ὑφ’ ὧν βούλεται θαυμάζεσθαι, καὶ πρὸσ οὓσ φιλοτιμεῖται, καὶ ὧν μὴ καταφρονεῖ τῆσ δόξησ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 6 15:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ μικρὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα οὐδὲ συγγνώμησ ἄξια, οὐδ’ ἐλπίδα παρέχοντα ὡσ ἔσται τοῦ λοιποῦ βελτίων, ἀλλ’ οὕτω πεπραγμένα καὶ εἰσ τοσοῦτον κακίασ ἀφιγμένα, ὥστ’ ἐπ’ ἐνίοισ ὧν οὗτοσ φιλοτιμεῖται <καὶ> τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ αἰσχύνεσθαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ τοσούτων συμφορῶν καὶ οὕτωσ αὐτῷ μεγάλων ὑπαρχουσῶν ἐπὶ τῇ τοῦ πατρὸσ πονηρία φιλοτιμεῖται, καὶ λέγει ὡσ οὕτωσ ἐκεῖνοσ μέγα ἐδύνατο, ὥστε τῇ πόλει πάντων <τῶν> κακῶν αἴτιοσ γεγένηται. (Lysias, Speeches, 42:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀρχαιοτάτουσ συμβέβηκε τούτουσ εἶναι καὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν ὃν ἂν ἕκαστοσ ἐθέλῃ θεραπεύειν, ὡσ ὑμῶν τιμώντων, φιλοτιμεῖται τοῦτον ὡσ κάλλιστα ἑστάναι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 114:3)
  • ὁ δὲ πάσχων τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ὡσ ὑπὸ ψώρασ τινὸσ ἐρεθιζόμενοσ μετρίωσ ὀδαξᾶσθαι φιλοτιμεῖται, μεμιγμένην ἔχοντοσ τοῦ πάθουσ ἀλγηδόσι τὴν χαράν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 29 6:2)

Derived

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

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