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φιλέλλην

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλέλλην φιλέλληνος

Structure: φιλελλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. fond of the Hellenes

Declension

Third 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

  • εἴ γε μὴν αὖ καλὸν Ἕλληνα ὄντα φιλέλληνα εἶναι, τίνα τισ οἶδεν ἄλλον στρατηγὸν ἢ πόλιν οὐκ ἐθέλοντα αἱρεῖν, ὅταν οἰήται πορθήσειν, ἢ συμφορὰν νομίζοντα τὸ νικᾶν ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Ἕλληνασ πολέμῳ; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 5:1)
  • Στησιχόρου δὲ καὶ Πινδάρου ἐπεμνήσθη, τοῦ μὲν ὅτι μιμητὴσ Ὁμήρου γενέσθαι δοκεῖ καὶ τὴν ἅλωσιν οὐκ ἀναξίωσ ἐποίησε τῆσ Τροίασ, τοῦ δὲ Πινδάρου διά τε τὴν λαμπρότητα τῆσ φύσεωσ καὶ ὅτι τὸν πρόγονον αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμώνυμον ἐπῄνεσεν Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν φιλέλληνα ἐπικληθέντα ποιήσασ εἰσ αὐτόν, ὀλβίων ἐπώνυμε Δαρδανιδᾶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 41:3)
  • εἰ δ’ αὖ τὸ φιλέλληνα εἶναι καλὸν καὶ πρέπον βασιλεῖ, τῷ προσήκων ὁ ἔπαινοσ οὕτωσ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:9)

Synonyms

  1. fond of the Hellenes

    • Ἑλλάς (Greece, from Peloponnesus to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively)

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

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