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ἀντιφίλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιφίλησις

Structure: ἀντιφιλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)ntifile/w

Sense

  1. return of affection

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀντιφίλησις ἀντιφιλήσει ἀντιφιλήσεις
Genitive ἀντιφιλήσεως ἀντιφιλήσοιν ἀντιφιλήσεων
Dative ἀντιφιλήσει ἀντιφιλήσοιν ἀντιφιλήσεσιν*
Accusative ἀντιφίλησιν ἀντιφιλήσει ἀντιφιλήσεις
Vocative ἀντιφίλησι ἀντιφιλήσει ἀντιφιλήσεις

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

  • οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἀντιφίλησισ, οὐδὲ βούλησισ ἐκείνῳ ἀγαθοῦ γελοῖον γὰρ ἴσωσ τῷ οἴνῳ βούλεσθαι τἀγαθά, ἀλλ’ εἴπερ, σῴζεσθαι βούλεται αὐτόν, ἵνα αὐτὸσ ἔχῃ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 16:5)
  • καθ’ ἕκαστον γάρ ἐστιν ἀντιφίλησισ οὐ λανθάνουσα, οἱ δὲ φιλοῦντεσ ἀλλήλουσ βούλονται τἀγαθὰ ἀλλήλοισ ταύτῃ ᾗ φιλοῦσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 21:4)

Synonyms

  1. return of affection

Similar forms

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

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