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φιλοτιμία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: philotimia

Principal Part: φιλοτιμία

Structure: φιλοτιμι (Stem) + α (Ending)

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

  • εἰς ἐπίτασιν δὲ θρησκείας καὶ τοὺς ἀγνοοῦντας ἡ τοῦ τεχνίτου προετρέψατο φιλοτιμία. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:18)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἀφιλότιμον οὐ μικρὸν εἰς πρᾳότητα πολιτικὴν ἐφόδιον, καὶ τοὐναντίον ἡ φιλοτιμία χαλεπὸν καὶ φθόνου γονιμώτατον, ἧς ὁ μὲν ἀπήλλακτο παντάπασιν, ὁ δὲ καὶ πάνυ πολλῆς μετεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 5 3:1)
  • τὸ δὲ ἄγαν πανταχοῦ μὲν ἐπισφαλές, ἐν δὲ ταῖς πολιτικαῖς φιλοτιμίαις ὀλέθριον ἐκφέρει γὰρ εἰς μανίαν καὶ παραφροσύνην ὕπαιθρον ἐξουσίας μεγάλης ἐπιλαβομένους, ὅταν μὴ τὸ καλὸν ἔνδοξον εἶναι θέλωσιν, ἀλλ ἀγαθὸν ἡγῶνται τὸ ἔνδοξον εἶναι. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 2 2:1)
  • προδικίαν ὑφαρπάζουσα φιλοτιμία. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 18 11:1)
  • ἀλλ ὠφέλιμοι αἱ φιλοτιμίαι ζητούντων εἰ λόγῳ ἢ μάχῃ αἱρεθῆναι δεῖ τὸ Ἴλιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 30 2:6)
  • φιλοτιμίᾳ μὲν οὐδεμιᾷ μὰ τὼ θεὼ λέξους ἀνέστην ὦ γυναῖκες: (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene12)
  • φιλοτιμίᾳ μὲν ἐνέχεται, δεινῷ κακῷ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 4:23)
  • ἁμιλλώμενοι δ ἀεὶ πολιτεύμασι χρηστοῖς τὰς τιμὰς ὑπερβάλλεσθαι, καὶ τιμώμενοι μᾶλλον ἐξ ὧν ἐπολιτεύοντο κεχαρισμένως, καὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἴσῃ φιλοτιμίᾳ πρός τε τὸν δῆμον ἑαυτοὺς καὶ τὸν δῆμον πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς ἐκκαύσαντες, ἔλαθον ἁψάμενοι πραγμάτων ἐν οἷς οὐκέτ ἦν τὸ ἐπιμεῖναι καλὸν, αἰσχρὸν δ ἤδη τὸ παύσασθαι. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 2 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. the object coveted

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

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