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φιλάοιδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλάοιδος φιλάοιδον

Structure: φιλαοιδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of singing

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὐ μὰν λεπταῖσιν ἐπαιάζοντα ποδίστραισ τὸν φιλαοιδὸν ἰδὼν παῖδα παρετρόχασα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3722)
  • κερκίδα τὴν φιλαοιδὸν Ἀθηναίῃ θέτο Βιττὼ ἄνθεμα, λιμηρῆσ ἄρμενον ἐργασίησ, εἶπε δέ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 471)

Synonyms

  1. fond of singing

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

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