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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

  • ὁ δὲ Δίφιλοσ ἠξίου καὶ τὰ τῷ Ζήνωνι δὴ ἀπόντι παραδοθέντα φέρεσθαι καὶ ἔλεγε μόνῳ παρατεθῆναι οἱ αὐτὰ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ διακόνουσ ἐμάχετο, καὶ ἀντέσπων τῆσ ὄρνιθοσ ἐπειλημμένοι ὥσπερ τὸν Πατρόκλου νεκρὸν ἀνθέλκοντεσ, καὶ τέλοσ ἐνικήθη καὶ ἀφῆκε πολὺν γέλωτα παρασχὼν τοῖσ συμπόταισ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεὶ ἠγανάκτει μετὰ τοῦτο ὡσ ἂν τὰ μέγιστα ἠδικημένοσ. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 42:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὖν λέγειν χρή σ’ ὡσ ἐμάχετό γ’ αὐτίκα Ἐφουδίων παγκράτιον Ἀσκώνδᾳ καλῶσ, ἤδη γέρων ὢν καὶ πολιόσ, ἔχων δέ τοι πλευρὰν βαθυτάτην καὶ χέρασ καὶ λαγόνα καὶ θώρακ’ ἄριστον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:17)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ γυμνῆσ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ καταστὰσ ἐμάχετο. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 59:2)
  • ἠρίστευσε δὲ καὶ Σωκράτησ ἐπὶ τῷ δεξιῷ ταχθεὶσ, πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ ὅτε ζῶν ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ ἐμάχετο. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 23:4)
  • Πόσσισ δ’ ὁ Μάγνησ ἐν τρίτῳ Ἀμαζονίδοσ τῆσ Ἀργοῦσ φησι δημιουργὸν γενέσθαι τὸν Γλαῦκον καὶ κυβερνῶντα αὐτήν, ὅτε ’ Ιἄσων μετὰ τῶν Τυρρηνῶν ἐμάχετο, μόνον ἄτρωτον γενέσθαι ἐν τῇ ναυμαχίᾳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 47 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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