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

  • νῦν δ’ ἢν πληγέντοσ ἀκούσῃ, μὴ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τύπτῃ δεδιὼσ τοῖσ δρῶσιν τοῦτο μαχεῖται. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 2:9)
  • ἔστι γυνή, τέξει δὲ λέονθ’ ἱεραῖσ ἐν Ἀθήναισ, ὃσ περὶ τοῦ δήμου πολλοῖσ κώνωψι μαχεῖται ὥστε περὶ σκύμνοισι βεβηκώσ· (Aristotle, Episode 1:18)
  • ὁ δὲ μυρίουσ σταδίουσ ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ ἐν ὅπλοισ ἀναβεβηκώσ μηδενὸσ ἀναγκάζοντοσ, ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ Κῦρον εἰσ τὸν θρόνον καθίσῃ τὸν βασίλειον, εἶτα περισκοπῶν χώραν καὶ τάξιν, οὐκ ἀφ’ ἧσ σώσειε τὸν ἡγεμόνα καὶ μισθοδότην, ἀλλ’ ἐν τίνι θέμενοσ ἑαυτὸν ἀσφαλῶσ μαχεῖται καθ’ ἡσυχίαν, ὅμοιοσ ἦν ὑπὸ δέουσ τῶν παρόντων ἐκβεβληκότι τοὺσ περὶ τῶν ὅλων λογισμοὺσ καὶ προιεμένῳ τὴν τῆσ στρατείασ ὑπόθεσιν. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 8 4:1)
  • "μαχεῖται γὰρ ὑμῖν Μαρδόνιοσ αὔριον, οὐχ ὑπ’ ἐλπίδοσ χρηστῆσ οὐδὲ θάρσουσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπορίασ τῶν παρόντων, ἐπεὶ καὶ μάντεισ ἐκεῖνον ἀπαισίοισ ἱεροῖσ καὶ λογίοισ χρησμῶν εἴργουσι μάχησ, καὶ τὸν στρατὸν ἔχει δυσθυμία πολλὴ καὶ κατάπληξισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 15 2:5)
  • κἂν μὴ νῦν ἡττηθῇ μετ’ ἐκείνου, μικρὸν ὕστερον ἐκείνῳ μαχεῖται. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 29 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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