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προμάχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: promachomai

Principal Part: προμάχομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + μάχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fight before, before
  2. to fight for or in defence of

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect 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

  • σοῦ προμάχεται καὶ φυλάττει τὴν θύραν καὶ τἄλλ ἄριστός ἐστιν: (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:5)
  • καὶ προσιόντες τῷ Πομπηίῳ συνθέσθαι παρεκάλουν, ὅτε καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα κατερρήξατο ὁ Πομπήιος ὡς καὶ τῶνδε προδιδόντων αὑτόν, ὧν προμάχεται, καὶ θαμινὰ τὸν Μηνόδωρον ὡς στρατηγικὸν καὶ μόνον εὔνουν ἀνεκάλει. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 8 5:9)

Synonyms

  1. to fight before

  2. to fight for or in defence of

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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