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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

  • καὶ τοιοῦτοι ὄντεσ, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, ὁρᾷσ οἱᾶ ποιοῦσι καὶ ὡσ φιλοτιμοῦνται πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἀρχῶν πέρι καὶ τιμῶν καὶ κτήσεων ἁμιλλώμενοι, ἅπερ ἅπαντα καταλιπόντασ αὐτοὺσ δεήσει ἕνα ὀβολὸν ἔχοντασ ἥκειν παρ’ ἡμᾶσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 20:1)
  • μάλιστα γὰρ φιλοτιμοῦνται τοὺσ φίλουσ μὴ πράττειν εὖ μηδ’ εἶναι ἀνάγκαι αὐτοῖσ κακῶσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 261:2)
  • ἔτι τοῖσ ὀλιγωροῦσι πρὸσ πέντε, πρὸσ οὓσ φιλοτιμοῦνται, πρὸσ οὓσ θαυμάζουσιν, ὑφ’ ὧν βούλονται θαυμάζεσθαι, ἢ οὓσ αἰσχύνονται, ἢ ἐν τοῖσ αἰσχυνομένοισ αὐτούσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 2 22:2)
  • καὶ πρὸσ οὓσ φιλοτιμοῦνται, ἢ ὑφ’ ὧν ζηλοῦσθαι βούλονται καὶ μὴ φθονεῖσθαι, τούτουσ ἢ φιλοῦσιν ἢ βούλονται φίλοι εἶναι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 4 24:2)
  • φιλοτιμοῦνται δὲ πρὸσ τοὺσ ὁμοίουσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 6 17:1)

Derived

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

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