φιλοτιμεῖσθαι (philotimeisthai)

φιλοτιμεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of φιλοτιμέομαι, meaning “be ambitious, strive for honour”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 61: … νομένης τοῦ ὀνόματος, Ἑλληνιστὶ κύων κέκληται τὸ ἄστρον, ὅπερ ἴδιον τῆς Ἴσιδος νομίζουσιν. ἥκιστα μὲν οὖν δεῖ φιλοτιμεῖσθαι περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἂν ὑφείμην τοῦ Σαράπιδος Αἰγυπτίοις ἢ τοῦ Ὀσίριδος, ἐκεῖνο μὲν ξενικόν, …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 19: … θα μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς τῶν προγόνων ἔργοις τὸ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῶν τότε πραχθέντων ἐγκωμιάζειν ἀξιοῦμεν· τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ φιλοτιμεῖσθαί τε καὶ ἐπαινεῖν. καὶ ἐν τῷ οὐδὲν δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκείνοις πράττομεν τὸ ἀλλὰ πᾶν τοὐναντίον· ἤρκει γὰρ αὐτῶν εἰρῆ …

All forms of φιλοτιμέομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.