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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

  • 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

Related

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

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