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φιλότιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλότιμος φιλότιμον

Structure: φιλοτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. loving honour, covetous of honour, ambitious, emulous, eager to be honoured for, covetous of distinction in . .
  2. emulously prodigal, lavish
  3. august
  4. ambitiously, emulously, emulously, eagerly

Examples

  • ταῦτά τε δὴ φιλότιμα, καὶ τὸ πολλάκισ ἐπαιρόμενον τοῦ λόγου τῇ δεινότητι τὸ πρέπον προϊέσθαι. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 25 1:1)
  • τοῦτο ἔσχεν ὁ Φιλώτασ οἱᾶ δὲ νέοσ πρόσ ἐρωμένην καὶ σὺν οἴνῳ πολλὰ φιλότιμα καὶ στρατιωτικὰ παρρησιαζόμενοσ ἑαυτοῦ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἔργων ἀπέφαινε καὶ τοῦ πατρόσ, Ἀλέξανδρον δὲ μειράκιον ἀπεκάλει δι’ αὐτοὺσ τὸ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ὄνομα καρπούμενον. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 48 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. august

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

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