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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

  • καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον, καὶ πρὸσ τὸ ἀρχόμενον ὥσπερ ἐν θύραισ τοῦ βήματοσ μάχεται καὶ πάροδον οὐ δίδωσι τὴν δὲ σύντροφον καὶ συνήθη δόξαν οὐκ ἀγρίωσ οὐδὲ χαλεπῶσ ἀλλὰ πράωσ ἀνέχεται. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 72)
  • "ὁ δὲ ἐπὰν προίδηται ἁρπάσασ τὰ ὅπλα μάχεται πρὸ τοῦ ζεύγουσ ἐν ῥυθμῷ πρὸσ τὸν αὐλόν καὶ τέλοσ ὁ λῃστὴσ δήσασ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸ ζεῦγοσ ἀπάγει, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὁ ζευγηλάτησ τὸν λῃστὴν εἶτα παρὰ τοὺσ βοῦσ δήσασ ὀπίσω τὼ χεῖρε δεδεμένον ἐλαύνει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 27 2:8)
  • "ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ λέγοι σῶμα μηδὲ πεφωτισμένον, ἤδη μάχεται ταῖσ αἰσθήσεσιν, ὥσπερ ὁ σῶμα καὶ ζῷον καὶ γένεσιν καὶ αἴσθησιν μὴ ἀπολείπων. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1515)
  • "ὅθεν ἐμμένουσα τοῖσ πάθεσιν ἡ δόξα διατηρεῖ τὸ ἀναμάρτητον, ἐκβαίνουσα δὲ καὶ πολυπραγμονοῦσα τῷ κρίνειν καὶ ἀποφαίνεσθαι περὶ τῶν ἐκτὸσ αὑτήν τε πολλάκισ ταράσσει καὶ μάχεται πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐναντία πάθη καὶ διαφόρουσ φαντασίασ λαμβάνοντασ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2412)
  • "ἡ γὰρ πρᾶξισ δυεῖν δεῖται, φαντασίασ τοῦ οἰκείου καὶ πρὸσ τὸ φανὲν οἰκεῖον ὁρμῆσ, ὧν οὐδέτερον τῇ ἐποχῇ μάχεται · (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2613)

Synonyms

  1. I make war

  2. I quarrel

  3. I contend

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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