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

  • εἰε͂ν, καὶ μάχει; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics6)
  • ὦ παμπόνηρε πῶσ οὖν κυνὸσ βορὰν σιτούμενοσ μαχεῖ σὺ κυνοκεφάλλῳ; (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme4)
  • περὶ τοῦ μαχεῖ νῷν δῆτα; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:14)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐνθάδ’ ἐστὶν αἰσχρὸν τὸν πατέρα τύπτειν νόμῳ, τοῦτ’ ἐκεῖ καλὸν παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐστιν, ἤν τισ τῷ πατρὶ προσδραμὼν εἴπῃ πατάξασ, αἶρε πλῆκτρον, εἰ μαχεῖ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, epirrheme3)
  • πόλει μαχεῖ γάρ, εἴ τι πημανεῖσ ἐμέ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:39)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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