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φιλάδελφος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλάδελφος φιλάδελφον

Structure: φιλαδελφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's brother or sister, brotherly, sisterly

Examples

  • Πτολεμαῖοσ δὲ ὁ Λάγου ὁ τῶν καθ’ αὑτὸν εὐδαιμονέστατοσ βασιλέων Αἰγύπτου μὲν ἐβασίλευσεν, τέσσαρα δὲ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα βιώσασ ἔτη ζῶν παρέδωκεν τὴν ἀρχὴν πρὸ δύο ἐτοῖν τῆσ τελευτῆσ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ υἱῷ, Φιλαδέλφῳ δὲ ἐπίκλησιν, ὅστισ διεδέξατο τὴν πατρῴαν βασιλείαν ἀδελφῶν. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 12:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ δύο ξύλα παράλληλα δυσὶ πλαγίοισ ἐπεζευγμένα, καὶ δοκεῖ τῷ φιλαδέλφῳ τῶν θεῶν οἰκεῖον εἶναι τοῦ ἀναθήματοσ τὸ κοινὸν καὶ ἀδιαίρετον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 12)
  • δυσὶ πλαγίοισ ἐπεζευγμένα, καὶ δοκεῖ τῷ φιλαδέλφῳ τῶν θεῶν οἰκεῖον εἶναι τοῦ ἀναθήματοσ τὸ κοινὸν καὶ ἀδιαίρετον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 1 1:1)
  • Ἡρακλείδησ δ’ ἐν τῇ ἐπιτομῇ τῶν Σωτίωνοσ Διαδοχῶν τῷ Φιλαδέλφῳ τὴν βασιλείαν θέλειν ἐκχωρῆσαι τὸν Πτολεμαῖον· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. e'. DHMHTRIOS 5:3)
  • ἐγνώσθη δὲ καὶ Ἀντιγόνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ Φιλαδέλφῳ, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἐν τοῖσ ἰάμβοισ αὑτῷ μαρτυρεῖ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ib'. TIMWN 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. loving one's brother or sister

Related

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

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