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φιλανδρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλανδρία

Structure: φιλανδρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fi/landros

Sense

  1. love for the male sex
  2. love for a husband

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλανδρία φιλανδρίᾱ φιλανδρίαι
Genitive φιλανδρίᾱς φιλανδρίαιν φιλανδριῶν
Dative φιλανδρίᾱͅ φιλανδρίαιν φιλανδρίαις
Accusative φιλανδρίᾱν φιλανδρίᾱ φιλανδρίᾱς
Vocative φιλανδρίᾱ φιλανδρίᾱ φιλανδρίαι

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

  • " καὶ οὐδενὸσ αὐτὴν οὔτε ἀναιροῦντοσ οὔτε μηνύοντοσ, αὐτάγγελοσ ἐσ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ ἦλθε καθ’ εαὑτῆσ, κἀκείνων αὐτὴν διὰ τὴν φιλανδρίαν ὑπεριδόντων, ἑαυτὴν ἀπέκτεινε λιμῷ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 4 7:4)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐκείνῳ μὲν οὐκ ἂν ἔφη παρασχεῖν, Κύπρῳ δὲ οὐκ ἠρνεῖτο τήν τε φιλανδρίαν αὐτῆσ καταπεπληγμένοσ καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν ἅπασαν ἀρετήν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 194:3)

Synonyms

  1. love for the male sex

  2. love for a husband

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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