Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φίλανδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλανδρος φίλανδρον

Structure: φιλανδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r

Sense

  1. loving men
  2. loving one's husband

Examples

  • ποίασ γὰρ ἀηδόνασ ἄξιον τῷ φιλομούσῳ τῆσ ἀλκυόνοσ ἢ τῷ φιλοτέκνῳ χελιδόνασ ἢ τῷ φιλάνδρῳ πελειάδασ; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 352)
  • οὗτοι οὖν αἶγα χαλκῆν ἀπέστειλαν ἐσ Δελφούσ, δίδωσι δὲ νηπίοισ ἡ αἲξ Φυλακίδῃ καὶ Φιλάνδρῳ γάλα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. loving men

  2. loving one's husband

Related

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

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