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φιλαργυρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλαργυρία

Structure: φιλαργυρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. love of money, covetousness

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

  • καὶ ταῦτα ποιοῦσι πῶσ οἰεί κατηγοροῦντεσ αὐτοὶ μέθησ καὶ μοιχείασ καὶ λαγνείασ καὶ φιλαργυρίασ· (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 19:2)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ νήφων οὐδενὶ τῶν πρωτείων παραχωρήσειεν ἂν ψεύσματοσ ἕνεκα ἢ θρασύτητοσ ἢ φιλαργυρίασ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 54:4)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο τῆσ φιλαργυρίασ ἴδιον· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 4 6:1)
  • ἐπίστευε μὲν οὖν μάλιστα τῷ Νασικᾷ, κἀκεῖνον ἐκάλει μὴ παρόντοσ δὲ κατακλαύσασ τὴν τύχην καὶ τὴν ἀνάγκην περισκεψάμενοσ ἔδωκεν αὑτὸν ὑποχείριον τῷ Γναίῳ, τότε μάλιστα ποιήσασ φανερόν ὅτι τῆσ φιλαργυρίασ ἦν ἐν αὐτῷ τι κακὸν ἀγεννέστερον ἡ φιλοψυχία, δι’ ἥν, ὃ μόνον ἡ τύχη τῶν ἐπταικότων οὐκ ἀφαιρεῖται, τὸν ἔλεον, ἀπεστέρησεν ἑαυτοῦ, δεηθεὶσ γὰρ ἀχθῆναι πρὸσ τὸν Αἰμίλιον, ὁ μὲν ὡσ ἀνδρὶ μεγάλῳ πεπτωκότι πτῶμα νεμεσητὸν καὶ δυστυχὲσ ἐξαναστὰσ ὑπήντα μετὰ τῶν φίλων δεδακρυμένοσ· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 26 4:1)
  • δωρητικὸσ δὲ καὶ ἁπλοῦσ καὶ μεγαλόφρων γίγνεται πᾶσ ἐραστήσ, κἂν γλίσχροσ πρότερον, τῆσ μικρολογίασ καὶ φιλαργυρίασ δίκην σιδήρου διὰ πυρὸσ ἀνιεμένησ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 17 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of money

Related

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

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