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

  • παρ’ ἡμῖν δὲ συνεχεῖσ οἱ πόλεμοι, καὶ ἢ ἐπελαύνομεν ἄλλοισ ἢ ὑποχωροῦμεν ἐπιόντασ ἢ συμπεσόντεσ ὑπὲρ νομῆσ ἢ λείασ μαχόμεθα, ἔνθα μάλιστα δεῖ φίλων ἀγαθῶν· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 35:5)
  • "πλησίον τοῖσ πολεμίοισ μαχόμεθα. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 81)
  • "πλησίον τοῖσ πολεμίοισ μαχόμεθα. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 8 1:1)
  • ὅτι ὑπὲρ ὧν τοῖσ πολεμίοισ μαχόμεθα, ἵνα μὴ πάσχωσιν ὑβριστικὸν μηδ’ ἀσελγὲσ μηδέν, ὑπὲρ τούτων καὶ τοὺσ φιλίουσ, ἐὰν παρὰ τὸν νόμον εἰσ αὐτοὺσ ὑβρίζωσι καὶ διαφθείρωσιν, ἔδωκεν ἀποκτεῖναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 77:1)
  • ὑπὲρ μὲν οὖν γῆσ ἢ θαλάττησ οὐδὲ μαχόμεθα, ἀλλὰ θαλάττησ μὲν οὐδ̓ ἀντιποιοῦνται πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ οἱ Νικαεῖσ, ἀλλ̓ ἡδέωσ, ὥστε μηδεμίαν παρέχειν μάχην, διακέκρινται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 41:1)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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