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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

  • τῆσ δὲ τῶν Καρῶν βασιλίσσησ Ἄδασ ὄψα καὶ πέμματα παρεσκευασμένα περιττῶσ διὰ δημιουργῶν καὶ μαγείρων φιλοτιμουμένησ ἀεὶ πέμπειν πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἔφη κρείττονασ ἔχειν αὐτὸσ ὀψοποιούσ, πρὸσ μὲν ἄριστον τὴν νυκτοπορίαν πρὸσ δὲ δεῖπνον τὴν ὀλιγαριστίαν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 91)

Derived

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

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