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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

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

  • φιλανδρίαι τε παράδοξοι γυναικῶν ὤφθησαν καὶ παίδων ἐσ πατέρασ εὔνοιαι καὶ θεραπόντων ὑπὲρ φύσιν ἐσ δεσπότασ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 6 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. love for the male sex

  2. love for a husband

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

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