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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

  • ὅσοι δὲ τῶν ἁγνοτάτων μυστηρίων μετειλήφατε, σώσατε τοὺσ μυήσαντασ, οἱ μὲν ἤδη μετεσχηκότεσ τῶν φιλανθρωπιῶν τὴν χάριν διδόντεσ τῆσ εὐεργεσίασ, οἱ δὲ μέλλοντεσ μεταλήψεσθαι μὴ παραιρούμενοι τῷ θυμῷ τὴν ἐλπίδα. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 27 1:2)
  • Μακεδόνεσ μὲν γὰρ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ἐτετεύχεισαν φιλανθρωπιῶν, κοινῇ μὲν πάντεσ ἀπολυθέντεσ μοναρχικῶν ἐπιταγμάτων καὶ φόρων καὶ μεταλαβόντεσ ἀπὸ δουλείασ ὁμολογουμένωσ ἐλευθερίαν, ἰδίᾳ δὲ πάλιν κατὰ πόλεισ ἐκλυθέντεσ ἐκ μεγάλων στάσεων καὶ φόνων ἐμφυλίων διὰ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων φιλοτ̣ (Polybius, Histories, book 36, ii. bellum macedonicum 13:1)

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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