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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

  • ἢν δέ σοι μελήσῃ ποτὲ εἰδέναι ὅπωσ ἂν τὰ κάλλιστα οἰκηθείη πόλισ καὶ ὅπωσ ἂν ἄριστοι γένοιντο οἱ πολῖται αὐτῆσ, ἐπαινέσῃ τότε καὶ τὰσ ἀσκήσεισ ταύτασ καὶ τὴν φιλοτιμίαν ἣν φιλοτιμούμεθα περὶ αὐτάσ, καὶ εἴσῃ ὅτι πολὺ τὸ χρήσιμον ἔχουσιν ἐγκαταμεμιγμένον τοῖσ πόνοισ, εἰ καὶ νῦν μάτην σπουδάζεσθαι δοκοῦσιν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:2)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἂν ἄλλοθεν ἐπελθὼν καὶ μὴ συνδιεφθαρμένοσ ἡμῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐξαίφνησ ἐπιστὰσ τοῖσ γινομένοισ οὐκ ἂν μαίνεσθαι καὶ παραφρονεῖν ἡμᾶσ νομίσειεν, οἳ φιλοτιμούμεθα μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τῶν προγόνων ἔργοισ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῶν τότε πραχθέντων ἐγκωμιάζειν ἀξιοῦμεν, οὐδὲν δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκείνοισ πράττομεν, ἀλλὰ πᾶν τοὐναντίον; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 173)
  • οἳ φιλοτιμούμεθα μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τῶν προγόνων ἔργοισ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῶν τότε πραχθέντων ἐγκωμιάζειν ἀξιοῦμεν, οὐδὲν δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκείνοισ πράττομεν ἀλλὰ πᾶν τοὐναντίον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 17 1:1)
  • καὶ ἐν τῷ οἳ φιλοτιμούμεθα μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τῶν προγόνων ἔργοισ τὸ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῶν τότε πραχθέντων ἐγκωμιάζειν ἀξιοῦμεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 1:2)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἂν ἄλλοθεν ἐπελθὼν οὐκ ἂν μαίνεσθαι νομίσειεν ἡμᾶσ, οἳ φιλοτιμούμεθα μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ τῶν προγόνων ἔργοισ, οὐδὲν δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκείνοισ πράττομεν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 1:7)

Derived

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

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