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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

  • κατὰ μὲν τὴν ψυχὴν ἀλαζονεία, καὶ φιλαργυρία καὶ φιλοδοξία καὶ φιλονικία, ἀπιστία καὶ βασκανία. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:25)
  • ἐλπίδεσ, ὦ Χάρων, καὶ δείματα καὶ ἄγνοιαι καὶ ἡδοναὶ καὶ φιλαργυρίαι καὶ ὀργαὶ καὶ μίση καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 15:5)
  • τούτων δὲ ἡ ἄγνοια μὲν κάτω συναναμέμικται αὐτοῖσ καὶ συμπολιτεύεται, καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ μῖσοσ καὶ ὀργὴ καὶ ζηλοτυπία καὶ ἀμαθία καὶ ἀπορία καὶ φιλαργυρία, ὁ φόβοσ δὲ καὶ αἱ ἐλπίδεσ ὑπεράνω πετόμενοι ὁ μὲν ἐμπίπτων ἐκπλήττει ἐνίοτε καὶ ὑποπτήσσειν ποιεῖ, αἱ δ’ ἐλπίδεσ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ αἰωρούμεναι, ὁπόταν μάλιστα οἰήταί τισ ἐπιλήψεσθαι αὐτῶν, ἀναπτάμεναι οἴχονται κεχηνότασ αὐτοὺσ ἀπολιποῦσαι, ὅπερ καὶ τὸν Τάνταλον κάτω πάσχοντα ὁρᾷσ ὑπὸ τοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 15:6)
  • συνεισέρχεται γὰρ μοιχεία καὶ φιλαργυρία καὶ ἐπιορκία καὶ τὸ τοιοῦτο φῦλον τῶν ἡδονῶν, παρασύρεται δὲ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὑποκλυζομένησ πάντοθεν αἰδὼσ καὶ ἀρετὴ καὶ δικαιοσύνη· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 16:3)
  • ἆρ’ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ μικρῶν κακῶν ἢ τῶν τυχόντων ὅλῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι αἴτιοσ γεγενῆσθαι Δημοσθένησ καὶ ἡ τούτου φιλαργυρία; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 27:1)
  • τῇ δὲ πρὸ τῆσ ἑορτῆσ καθάρσιον μέν τι περιφερέσθω καὶ ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν ἐξελαυνέσθω ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ μικρολογία καὶ φιλαργυρία καὶ φιλοκερδία καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα ἄλλα σύνοικα τοῖσ πλείστοισ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:3)

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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