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

  • Κλεοφῶν δὲ μαχέσθω κἄλλοσ ὁ βουλόμενοσ τούτων πατρίοισ ἐν ἀρούραισ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Exodus, dactyls3)
  • Νικοφῶν Σειρῆσιν ἀλλᾶσ μαχέσθω περὶ ἕδρασ παροψίδι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 5 3:3)
  • καὶ πόδα πὰρ ποδὶ θεὶσ καὶ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδοσἀσπίδ’ ἐρείσασ, ἐν δὲ λόφον τε λόφῳ καὶ κυνέην κυνέῃ καὶ στέρνον στέρνῳ πεπλημένοσ ἀνδρὶ μαχέσθω, ἢ ξίφεοσ κώπην ἢ δόρυ μακρὸν ἑλών. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 155)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν πεισθεὶσ ἡμῶν τῷ λόγῳ εὐτυχεῖ τε καὶ εἰσ χρόνον ἅπαντα εὐτυχοῖ, ὁ δὲ ἀπιστήσασ τὸ μετὰ ταῦτα τοιῷδέ τινι μαχέσθω νόμῳ· (Plato, Laws, book 12 5:1)
  • ὅστισ οὖν αὑτὸν φιλεῖ, μετ’ ἐμοῦ μαχέσθω· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 16:4)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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