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μάχη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάχη μάχης

Structure: μαχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. battle, combat
  2. quarrel, strife, dispute
  3. contest, game
  4. battlefield
  5. (logic) contradiction, inconsistency

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

  • ἀνὴρ θυμώδησ παρασκευάζει μάχασ, μακρόθυμοσ δὲ καὶ τὴν μέλλουσαν καταπραΰνει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 15:18)
  • εἰ εἰσ κρίσεισ καὶ μάχασ νηστεύετε καὶ τύπτετε πυγμαῖσ ταπεινόν, ἱνατί μοι νηστεύετε ὡσ σήμερον, ἀκουσθῆναι ἐν κραυγῇ τὴν φωνὴν ὑμῶν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 58:4)
  • τὸ μὲν ἀληθὲσ οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν, εἰκάζειν δὲ χρὴ νέον ὄντα καὶ τούτων ὀρέγεσθαι τυχεῖν καὶ βούλεσθαι ἂν πρῶτον αὐτὸν εἶναι κατὰ τὰσ μάχασ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:10)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστισ ἀνήκοοσ ἦν τοῦ Ἡροδότου ονοματοσ, οἱ μὲν αὐτοὶ ἀκούσαντεσ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ, οἱ δὲ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ πανηγύρεωσ ἡκόντων πυνθανόμενοι, καὶ εἰ πού γε φανείη μόνον, ἐδείκνυτο ἂν τῷ δακτύλῳ, Οὗτοσ ἐκεῖνοσ Ἡρόδοτόσ ἐστιν ὁ τὰσ μάχασ τὰσ Περσικὰσ Ιἀστὶ συγγεγραφώσ, ὁ τὰσ νίκασ ἡμῶν ὑμνήσασ. (Lucian, Herodotus 4:2)
  • Θουκυδίδησ δὲ πόλεμον ἕνα κατατείνασ ἀπνευστὶ διεξέρχεται μάχασ ἐπὶ μάχαισ καὶ παρασκευὰσ ἐπὶ παρασκευαῖσ καὶ λόγουσ ἐπὶ λόγοισ συντιθείσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. battle

  2. quarrel

  3. contest

  4. battlefield

  5. contradiction

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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