Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μάχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάχομαι μαχέσομαι ἐμαχεσάμην μεμάχημαι

Structure: μάχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Dep.

Sense

  1. (with dative) I make war, fight, battle
  2. I quarrel, wrangle, dispute
  3. I contend, compete

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist tense

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

  • δεινὸν γὰρ ἂν εἰή, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰ, ὅτε μὲν ἐφεύγομεν, ἐμαχόμεθα Λακεδαιμονίοισ, ἵνα κατέλθωμεν, κατελθόντεσ δὲ φευξόμεθα, ἵνα μὴ μαχώμεθα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 33 7:2)
  • ἄλλοσ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ ταὐτὸ ἀεὶ αἱρεῖσθαι ὕστερον καὶ πρότερον, ἀλλ’ ἀνάπαλιν, οἱο͂ν τόδε τὸ ἐνθύμημα, "ἦ φεύγοντεσ μὲν ἐμαχόμεθα ὅπωσ κατέλθωμεν, κατελθόντεσ δὲ φευξόμεθα ὅπωσ μὴ μαχώμεθα; (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 19:1)
  • δεινὸν γὰρ ἂν εἰή, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰ, ὅτε μὲν ἐφεύγομεν, ἐμαχόμεθα Λακεδαιμονίοισ, ἵνα κατέλθωμεν, κατελθόντεσ δὲ φευξόμεθα, ἵνα μὴ μαχώμεθα. (Lysias, Speeches, 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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