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φιλειδήμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλειδήμων φιλειδήμον

Structure: φιλειδημων (Stem)

Etym.: ei)de/nai

Sense

  1. fond of learning

Examples

  • προστίθει οὖν τούτῳ καὶ τὸ φιλείδημον τοῦ ποιητοῦ καὶ τὸ φιλέκδημον, ὅπερ αὐτῷ μαρτυροῦσιν ὅσοι τὸν βίον ἀναγράφουσι, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν δὲ λαμβάνεται τῶν ποιημάτων πολλὰ παραδείγματα τοῦ τοιούτου. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 58:9)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἃ λέγουσι παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων μεταφέρουσιν, ἐξ ἑαυτῶν δ’ οὐ πολὺ μὲν προσφέρονται τὸ φιλείδημον ὥσθ’, ὁπόταν ἔλλειψισ γένηται παρ’ ἐκείνων, οὐκ ἔστι πολὺ τὸ ἀναπληρούμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἑτέρων, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ὅσα ἐνδοξότατα, τῶν πλείστων ὄντων Ἑλληνικῶν· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 38:8)

Synonyms

  1. fond of learning

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

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