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

  • οὐχὶ μαχοῦνται· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 1:17)
  • οὐχὶ μαχοῦνται. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 1:20)
  • καὶ τοὺσ Σαυρομάτασ δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ οὐ μετρίωσ ἐφόβησε, λογιζομένουσ πρὸσ οἱούσ ἄνδρασ ἐκ παρασκευῆσ μαχοῦνται, εἰ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀπροσδοκήτῳ τότε ὑπερέσχον· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 40:2)
  • πότερα μαχοῦνται πολεμίοισιν ἐν χεροῖν δίσκουσ ἔχοντεσ ἢ δι’ ἀσπίδων χερὶ θείνοντεσ ἐκβαλοῦσι πολεμίουσ πάτρασ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 5 2:2)
  • Παυλῖνοσ δὲ τοῖσ μὲν πολεμίοισ ἔφη πάντα μεθ’ ὧν μαχοῦνται παρεῖναι, καὶ μηδὲν ἐνδεῖν, Ὄθωνι δὲ τῆσ ἤδη παρούσησ οὐκ ἐλάττονα προσδόκιμον εἶναι δύναμιν ἐκ Μυσίασ καὶ Παννονίασ, ἂν τὸν αὑτοῦ περιμένῃ καιρόν, ἀλλὰ μὴ στρατηγῇ πρὸσ τὸν τῶν πολεμίων, οὐ γὰρ ἀμβλυτέροισ γε χρήσεσθαι τότε τοῖσ νῦν θαρροῦσιν ἀπ’ ἐλαττόνων, ἂν πλείονασ τοὺσ ἀγωνιζομένουσ προσλάβωσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐκ περιουσίασ ἀγωνιεῖσθαι· (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 8 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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