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φιλαίτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλαίτιος φιλαίτιον

Structure: φιλαιτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)ti/a

Sense

  1. fond of accusing, censorious, censoriousness
  2. liable to blame or attack

Examples

  • βέλτιον δὲ περὶ τῆσ τετάρτησ λέγει μερίδοσ, προστίθησι δὲ καὶ [τὸ] τοῦ φιλαιτίου καὶ τοῦ μένοντοσ ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ὑποθέσεων ἢ τῶν παραπλησίων. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 70:1)
  • συγγινώσκειν δὲ τοῖσ νῦν ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀνάγκησ ὑπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ πραττομένοισ φύσει δυσαρέστου καὶ φιλαιτίου τοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν οἷσ ἂν ἀτυχῇ γένουσ ὄντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. fond of accusing

  2. liable to blame or attack

Related

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

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