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|Full diacritics=μεγᾰλαυχέω
|Medium diacritics=μεγαλαυχέω
|Low diacritics=μεγαλαυχέω
|Capitals=ΜΕΓΑΛΑΥΧΕΩ
|Transliteration A=megalauchéō
|Transliteration B=megalaucheō
|Transliteration C=megalafcheo
|Beta Code=megalauxe/w
|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">boast, brag</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1528</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ez.</span>16.50</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph. 1.284</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>5.272 (Agath.); ἐπί τινι <span class="bibl">Plb.12.13.10</span>; ἐν ταῖς εὐπραγίαις <span class="bibl">Id.8.21.11</span>; διά τι <span class="bibl">D.S.15.16</span>:—also in Med., Pl.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1.104c, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span>395d</span>; ἐπί τινι <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">BC</span>1.13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> c.acc., <b class="b2">boast of</b>, μονομάχιον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Gall.</span> 10</span>.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-0105.png Seite 105]] großprahlen, sich rühmen; μηδὲν ἐν Αιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, Aesch. Ag. 1509; [[κατά]] τινος, Agath. 13 (V, 273); auch in Prosa, Pol. 8, 23, 11; ἐπί τινι, σεμνύνεσθαι καὶ μ., 15, 23, 5; – geläufiger im med., Plat. Rep. III, 395 d Alc. I, 104 c.
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|lstext='''μεγᾰλαυχέω''': καυχῶμαι [[μεγάλως]], ὁμιλῶ κομπορρημόνως, Αἰσχύλ. Ἀγ. 1528, Ἀνθ. Π. 5. 273· - τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν μέσ. τύπῳ, καυχῶμαι, Πλάτ. Ἀλκ. 1. 104C, Πολ. 395D· ἐπί τινι, ἔν τινι Πολύβ. 12. 13, 10, κτλ.· διά τι Διόδ. 15. 16· - ῥημ. ἐπίθ. -ητέον, Φίλων 2. 217.
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{{bailly
|btext=-ῶ :<br />être orgueilleux, se vanter.<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[μεγάλαυχος]].
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{{StrongGR
|strgr=from a [[compound]] of [[μέγας]] and aucheo (to [[boast]]; [[akin]] to [[αὐξάνω]] and [[καυχάομαι]]); to [[talk]] [[big]], i.e. be [[grandiloquent]] ([[arrogant]], egotistic): [[boast]] [[great]] things.
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