φιλοτιμέομαι
Etym. φιλότιμος
Etym. Dep.
1. "to love or seek after honour, to be ambitious, emulous, jealous", Ar., etc.; φ. ὅτι.. "to be jealous" because.., Xen.:—the object of ambition is added with a prep., φιλ. ἐπί τινι "to pride oneself" upon it, id=Xen., etc.; ἔν τινι Plat.;— with neut. adj., ἀεί τι φιλοτιμούμενος "pursuing" some "object of ambition", Xen.
2. c. inf. "to strive eagerly and emulously to do" a thing, "endeavour earnestly, aspire", id=Xen.:—c. acc. et inf. "to be anxious that..", id=Xen.