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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

  • Φαλῆσ ἑταῖρε Βακχίου ξύγκωμε νυκτοπεριπλάνητε μοιχὲ παιδεραστά, ἕκτῳ σ’ ἔτει προσεῖπον ἐσ τὸν δῆμον ἐλθὼν ἄσμενοσ, σπονδὰσ ποιησάμενοσ ἐμαυτῷ, πραγμάτων τε καὶ μαχῶν καὶ Λαμάχων ἀπαλλαγείσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)
  • νῦν ἐστιν ἡμῖν ὦνδρεσ Ἕλληνεσ καλὸν ἀπαλλαγεῖσι πραγμάτων τε καὶ μαχῶν ἐξελκύσαι τὴν πᾶσιν Εἰρήνην φίλην, πρὶν ἕτερον αὖ δοίδυκα κωλῦσαί τινα. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 3:48)
  • κεἴ τισ δορυξὸσ ἢ κάπηλοσ ἀσπίδων, ἵν’ ἐμπολᾷ βέλτιον, ἐπιθυμεῖ μαχῶν ληφθεὶσ ὑπὸ λῃστῶν ἐσθίοι κριθὰσ μόνασ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, iambics8)
  • ἡμεῖσ δέ, ὦ φίλε, ἐγώ τε καὶ ὅδε, Μέγιλλοσ, φαμὲν τὴν πεζὴν μάχην τὴν ἐν Μαραθῶνι γενομένην καὶ ἐν Πλαταιαῖσ, τὴν μὲν ἄρξαι τῆσ σωτηρίασ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι, τὴν δὲ τέλοσ ἐπιθεῖναι, καὶ τὰσ μὲν βελτίουσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ποιῆσαι, τὰσ δὲ οὐ βελτίουσ, ἵν’ οὕτωσ λέγωμεν περὶ τῶν τότε συσσωσασῶν ἡμᾶσ μαχῶν· (Plato, Laws, book 4 21:1)
  • καὶ ἥ τε Ἀρμενία ἀφῄρητο αὖθισ καὶ πλησθείσησ πολέμων τῆσ Παρθυαίων γῆσ οἵ τε πρῶτοι τῶν τῇδε ἐκτείνοντο ἀνδρῶν ἀνάστατά τε ἦν αὐτοῖσ τὰ πάντα καὶ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὁ υἱὸσ ἐκ τουτωνὶ τῶν μαχῶν ἔπεσε μετὰ πολλῶν στρατοῦ μυριάδων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 122:1)
  • ὡσ μὲν οὖν κρουματοποιοῦ μνημονεύει Μάχων ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸσ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 183)
  • περὶ δὲ Φιλοξένου τοῦ Κυθηρίου διθυραμβοποιοῦ Μάχων ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸσ τάδε γράφει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 261)

Synonyms

  1. battle

  2. quarrel

  3. contest

  4. battlefield

  5. contradiction

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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