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φιλαναγνώστης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: philanagnōstēs

Principal Part: φιλαναγνώστης φιλαναγνώστου

Structure: φιλαναγνωστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of reading

Declension

First 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

  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὴν θεωρίαν ἠγάπησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ νοσοῦσιν ἐβοήθει τοῖς φίλοις καὶ συνέταττε θεραπείας τινὰς καὶ διαίτας, ὡς ἐκ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν λαβεῖν ἔστιν, ἦν δὲ καὶ φύσει φιλόλογος καὶ φιλαναγνώστης. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 8 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. fond of reading

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

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