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φιλοτιμία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοτιμία

Structure: φιλοτιμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: filo/timos

Sense

  1. the character of the, love of distinction, ambition, emulous desire, ambitious rivalry
  2. ambitious pertinacity, obstinacy
  3. ambitious display, prodigality
  4. the object coveted, honour, distinction, credit

Declension

First declension

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

  • ἔστι δὲ τῆσ ἀνελευθερίασ τὸ περὶ πλείστου ποιεῖσθαι χρήματα, καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ὄνειδοσ ἡγεῖσθαι τῶν ποιούντων τὸ κέρδοσ, βίοσ θητικὸσ καὶ δουλοπρεπὴσ καὶ ῥυπαρόσ, φιλοτιμίασ καὶ ἐλευθερίασ ἀλλότριοσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 41:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ κἀκεῖνοσ συνέστη ἐπὶ τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα καὶ συμπαρώξυνε τὸν δῆμον, ἧσ, φασίν, ἐκεῖνοσ πολιτικῆσ φιλοτιμίασ ὑποκεκνισμένοσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 27:5)
  • ἐῶ γὰρ τὰσ ἄλλασ αὐτοῦ γραφὰσ παραφέρειν, ἐν αἷσ κωμῳδεῖ τοὺσ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ, Παρμενίδην τε καὶ Ἱππίαν καὶ Πρωταγόραν καὶ Πρόδικον καὶ Γοργίαν καὶ Πῶλον καὶ Θεόδωρον καὶ Θρασύμαχον καὶ ἄλλουσ συχνούσ, οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου πάντα περὶ αὐτῶν γράφων ἀλλ’ εἰ βούλει, καὶ ἀπὸ φιλοτιμίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 12:1)
  • κτῶνται δὲ καὶ χρήματα φιλοτιμίασ ἕνεκεν τῆσ εἰσ τὰ κοινὰ τῆσ πατρίδοσ δαπανήματα. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 7:2)
  • ἐν οἷσ ἀξιοῖ στρατηγὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τηλικαύτησ ἐξουσίασ κύριον διαλλάττειν μὲν τὰσ διαφερομένασ πόλεισ ἀλλὰ μὴ συγκρούειν πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ, τὴν δὲ Ἑλλάδα μεγάλην ἐκ μικρᾶσ ποιεῖν ὑπεριδόντα τε τῆσ περὶ τὰ μικρὰ φιλοτιμίασ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ ἐπιχειρεῖν ἔργοισ, ἐξ ὧν κατορθώσασ τε πάντων ἡγεμόνων ἐπιφανέστατοσ ἔσται καὶ ἀποτυχὼν τήν γε εὔνοιαν τὴν παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων κτήσεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 6 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the object coveted

Related

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

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