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

  • οἳ δ’ ὥσ τ’ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχεσ, ἀγκυλοχεῖλαι, πέτρῃ ἔφ’ ὑψηλῇ μεγάλα κλάζοντε μάχονται αἰγὸσ ὀρεσσινόμου ἢ ἀγροτέρησ ἐλάφοιο πίονοσ, ἥν τ’ ἐδάμασσε βαλὼν αἰζήιοσ ἀνὴρ ἰῷ ἀπὸ νευρῆσ, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἀπαλήσεται ἄλλῃ χώρου ἀίδρισ ἐών· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 37:2)
  • ὑπὲρ τοῦ πεδίου αὐτοῦ, ἐν ᾧ μάχονται. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 24:2)
  • τῆσ προτέρασ δὲ ἰδέασ οἳ μὲν θυρεοὺσ φέρουσιν καὶ καλοῦνται θυρεαφόροι, οἳ δὲ ἄνευ τούτων αὐτὸ μόνον δόρασι μάχονται, οἳ δὴ καὶ ἰδίᾳ δορατοφόροι ὀνομάζονται, ἔστιν δὲ ὑφ̓ ὧν ξυστοφόροι. (Arrian, chapter 4 6:1)
  • συμπλακῆναι δὲ εἰ δεήσειεν ἐσ χεῖρασ ἐλθόντασ, ταῖσ σπάθαισ μάχονται. (Arrian, chapter 4 14:2)
  • "Ἰνδῶν δὲ φίλανδροι καὶ σώφρονεσ γυναῖκεσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ πυρὸσ ἐρίζουσι καὶ μάχονται πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ, τὴν δὲ νικήσασαν τεθνηκότι τῷ ἀνδρὶ συγκαταφλεγῆναι μακαρίαν ᾄδουσιν αἱ λοιπαί. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:12)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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