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

  • γιγνώσκω γὰρ ποίουσ ἔναγχοσ ἀγῶνασ ἠγωνίσω, τῇ Θέωνοσ ἀδελφῇ βοηθοῦσα καὶ μαχομένη ταῖσ μετ’ ὀλοφυρμῶν καὶ ἀλαλαγμῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπιούσαισ, ὥσπερ ἀτεχνῶσ πῦρ ἐπὶ πῦρ φερούσαισ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 7 2:1)
  • ἐπιθυμία γάρ ἐστι μαχομένη πρὸσ τὴν αὑτῆσ πλήρωσιν· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 4 6:2)
  • τῶν γὰρ νικητηρίων πέρι μαχομένη κεῖται. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 72:3)
  • ἡ δὲ Σεμίραμισ μετὰ στρατιωτῶν ἐπιλέκτων μαχομένη καὶ τῷ προτερήματι δεξιῶσ χρησαμένη τοὺσ Ἰνδοὺσ ἐτρέψατο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 19 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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