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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

  • ἦν γάρ, ἦν ἐν τῇ Πλάτωνοσ φύσει πολλὰσ ἀρετὰσ ἐχούσῃ τὸ φιλότιμον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 13:1)
  • φιλότιμον ἦθοσ πλούσιον, φρόνημα δὲ ἐν τοῖσιν ἔργοισ, οὐχὶ τοῖσ λόγοισ, ἴσον. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:10)
  • οἶσθ’, ὅτ’ ἐσπούδαζεσ ἄρχειν Δαναί̈δαισ πρὸσ Ἴλιον, τῷ δοκεῖν μὲν οὐχὶ χρῄζων, τῷ δὲ βούλεσθαι θέλων, ὡσ ταπεινὸσ ἦσθα, πάσησ δεξιᾶσ προσθιγγάνων καὶ θύρασ ἔχων ἀκλῄστουσ τῷ θέλοντι δημοτῶν καὶ διδοὺσ πρόσρησιν ἑξῆσ πᾶσι ‐ κεἰ μή τισ θέλοι ‐ τοῖσ τρόποισ ζητῶν πρίασθαι τὸ φιλότιμον ἐκ μέσου; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees27)
  • οὐ δάκνει σε τὸ φιλότιμον τοὐμόν, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀγκάλαισ εὐπρεπῆ γυναῖκα χρῄζεισ, τὸ λελογισμένον παρεὶσ καὶ τὸ καλόν, ἔχειν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:10)
  • τὸ μαντικὸν πᾶν σπέρμα φιλότιμον κακόν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 4:16)

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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