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ζήλωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζήλωμα ζήλωματος

Structure: ζηλωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from zhlo/w

Sense

  1. that which is emulated, high fortunes
  2. emulous efforts, rivalries

Declension

Third declension

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

  • καί μοι τοῦτο ἀναμνῆσαι νῦν ἔδοξεν ἐσ ζήλωμα τῆσ Ῥωμαίων ἀρετῆσ, ὅπου Μεσσάλασ, μόνον ἔχων ἐν τοσῇδε συμφορᾷ τὸν προγράψαντα, ἐθεράπευεν ὡσ αὐτοκράτορα καὶ περιέσῳζε. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 5:3)

Related

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

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