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ἀφιλάργυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφιλάργυρος ἀφιλάργυρᾱ ἀφιλάργυρον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + φιλαργυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not loving money

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐλευθέριόσ τε ὢν καὶ ἀφιλαργυρώτατοσ εἰσ τὰσ ἀργυρικὰσ δείξεισ ἀπήντα πρῶτοσ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀρχεκράτουσ καὶ Καλλικράτουσ τὰσ χρυσιαίασ παντὸσ ἔσπευδε μᾶλλον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. s'. ARKESILAOS 11:2)
  • Ἀφιλάργυροσ ὁ τρόποσ· (PROS EBRAIOUS, chapter 13 6:1)
  • κατὰ μὲν γὰρ τὴν νομοθεσίαν ἐφαίνετο πολιτικὸσ καὶ φρόνιμοσ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν πίστιν δίκαιοσ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ὑπεροχὴν ἀνδρεῖοσ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν πρὸσ τὸ κέρδοσ μεγαλοψυχίαν ἀφιλάργυροσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 11 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. not loving money

Derived

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

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