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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

  • "συνετῶν γάρ ἐστιν ἀνδρῶν ἐμμένειν τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ ζηλώμασιν δι’ ὧν στρατευόμενοι κατεστρέφοντο τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, λαμβάνοντεσ ἅμα τοῖσ δοριαλώτοισ καὶ εἴ τι χρήσιμον καὶ καλὸν ὑπῆρχε παρ’ ἐκείνοισ εἰσ μίμησιν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 10419)

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

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