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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

  • Πέλλῃ μὲν γὰρ οὐδεὶσ ἂν φιλοτιμοῖτο πατρίδι οὐδὲ Αἰγαῖσ, Ἀθηναῖοσ δὲ οὐδείσ ἐστιν Ἑλλήνων ὅστισ οὐκ ἂν εὔξαιτο μᾶλλον ἢ τῆσ ὑπαρχούσησ πόλεωσ πολίτησ γεγονέναι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 93:7)
  • οἱο͂ν εἰ φιλοτιμοῖτο ἡ μὲν ὡσ πρώτη τεκοῦσα τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένοσ, ἡ δ’ ὡσ πρώτη δείξασα τοὺσ καρποὺσ, ἡ δὲ ὡσ πλείστοισ μεταδοῦσα, ἡ δέ τισ ὡσ νόμουσ καταδείξασα, ἡ δὲ πανηγύρεισ, ἡ δ’ ὡσ ἐν καλλίστοισ κεῖται γῆσ ἅμα καὶ θαλάττησ, ἡ δὲ τοῖσ τῆσ σοφίασ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀγάλλοιτο, ἡ δὲ τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ πολέμοισ πράξεισ καταλέγοι, ἄλλη δὲ ὅσουσ ὑπεδέξατο τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἡ δὲ τὰσ ἀποικίασ ἃσ ἀπέστειλεν, ἡ δ’ ὅ τι καὶ δοίη τισ αὐτῇ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων τῇ πόλει, φήμ’ ἔγωγε μάλιστ’ ἂν οὕτω γενέσθαι καταφανὲσ ὁπόσοισ τισὶ τοῖσ κρείττοσιν ἡ πόλισ ὑμῖν τὰσ ἄλλασ παρελήλυθεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 94:4)

Derived

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

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