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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

  • ὁ γὰρ ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ πάλαι περιδεοῦσ καὶ καταπεπληγότοσ αὖθισ ἐμβαλὼν τῷ στρατεύματι ζῆλον καὶ φιλονεικίαν πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ μὴ ῥᾳδίωσ τῆσ νίκησ ὑφιέμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀμφισβητοῦν τε καὶ φιλοτιμούμενον ἐπάρασ καὶ θαρρύνασ, εἷσ ἀνὴρ ἦν, Μάρκελλοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 1 6:2)
  • τοῦτο δὲ οὐ πάνυ δυσκόλωσ τὴν Τιμαίαν ἐνεγκεῖν φησι Δοῦρισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ψιθυρίζουσαν οἴκοι πρὸσ τὰσ εἱλωτίδασ Ἀλκιβιάδην τὸ παιδίον, οὐ Λεωτυχίδην, καλεῖν καὶ μέντοι καὶ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην αὐτὸν οὐ πρὸσ ὕβριν τῇ Τιμαίᾳ φάναι πλησιάζειν, ἀλλὰ φιλοτιμούμενον βασιλεύεσθαι Σπαρτιάτασ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ γεγονότων. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 3 1:4)
  • καὶ Ταυρέαν ἀντιχορηγοῦντα ῥαπίσαι φιλοτιμούμενον ὑπὲρ τῆσ νίκησ· (Plutarch, , chapter 16 4:2)
  • ἃ γὰρ οὐκ ᾐσθόμην χρόνον τοσοῦτον, ἡμέρασ μέρει μικρῷ πεπαίδευμαι, γνοὺσ ἐμαυτὸν οὐκ ἄρχειν ἑτέρων δυνάμενον, ἀλλ’ ἄρχοντοσ ἑτέρου δεόμενον καὶ φιλοτιμούμενον νικᾶν ὑφ’ ὧν ἡττᾶσθαι κάλλιον. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 13 1:4)
  • τὸν δὲ Τίτον φιλοτιμούμενον πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ οὐ μετρίωσ παρώξυνε τὰ τοιαῦτα, διὸ καὶ τὰ ὑπόλοιπα τῶν πραγμάτων ἔπραττε καθ’ ἑαυτόν, ἐλάχιστα φροντίζων τῶν Αἰτωλῶν. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 9 4:1)

Derived

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

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