Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • φιλοτιμοῖντο γὰρ ἄν, ᾗ τὸ εἰκόσ, ὡσ πλείστουσ ἕκαστοσ ἀποδεῖξαι ἀκοντιστὰσ τῇ πόλει. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 27:2)

Derived

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

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