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φιλανθρωπία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλανθρωπία

Structure: φιλανθρωπι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fil/anqrwpos

Sense

  1. humanity, benevolence, kindliness, acts of kindness, kindnesses, courtesies
  2. love to man
  3. humanity, kindliness, mildness

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

  • ἕκαστα δὲ τούτων ἐπεγνωκώσ σύ, βασιλεῦ, καὶ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τοῦ περιϊσταμένου γένουσ ἡμῶν προνοήθητι, καθ̓ ἣν ἔχεισ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ εὐαπάντητον φιλανθρωπίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 14:9)
  • τύφοισ φερόμενοι παλαιοτέροισ, εἶρξαν ἡμᾶσ τῆσ εἰσόδου, ἀπολειπόμενοι τῆσ ἡμετέρασ ἀλκῆσ δι’ ἣν ἔχομεν πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἀνθρώπουσ φιλανθρωπίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 3:18)
  • χωρὶσ δὲ τούτων ὁ πρὸσ φιλανθρωπίαν ἐθισμὸσ οὐ δοκεῖ θαυμαστὸν εἶναι; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 71)
  • ἡ δὲ Κίμωνοσ ἀφθονία καὶ τὴν παλαιὰν τῶν Ἀθηναίων φιλοξενίαν καὶ φιλανθρωπίαν ὑπερέβαλεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 5:4)
  • λέγει τοίνυν ὁ Ἑκαταῖοσ πάλιν τάδε, ὅτι μετὰ τὴν ἐν Γάζῃ μάχην ὁ Πτολεμαῖοσ ἐγένετο τῶν περὶ Συρίαν τόπων ἐγκρατήσ, καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πυνθανόμενοι τὴν ἠπιότητα καὶ φιλανθρωπίαν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου συναπαίρειν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον αὐτῷ καὶ κοινωνεῖν τῶν πραγμάτων ἠβουλήθησαν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 208:1)

Synonyms

  1. love to man

Related

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

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