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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

  • πάντεσ γὰρ οἱ χαρίεντεσ πρὸσ τὸ λέγειν τρέπονται καὶ φιλοσοφεῖν, ὥσθ’ ἡ πόλισ μικρὸν μὲν πρότερον τοῖσ βαρβάροισ ἀνεῖτο παιδευτήριον, καὶ φιλέλληνασ κατεσκεύαζε τοὺσ Γαλάτασ ὥστε καὶ τὰ συμβόλαια ἑλληνιστὶ γράφειν, ἐν δὲ τῷ παρόντι καὶ τοὺσ γνωριμωτάτουσ Ῥωμαίων πέπεικεν ἀντὶ τῆσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἀποδημίασ ἐκεῖσε φοιτᾶν φιλομαθεῖσ ὄντασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 10:19)
  • τινὲσ δὲ καὶ Λάκωνασ συνοίκουσ αὐτοῖσ γενέσθαι φασὶ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ φιλέλληνασ ὑπάρξαι, τινὰσ δὲ καὶ Πιτανάτασ καλεῖσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 24:6)
  • Ἔφοροσ δὲ ὑπερβάλλουσάν τε τῷ μεγέθει λέγει τὴν Κελτικήν, ὥστε ἧσπερ νῦν Ἰβηρίασ καλοῦμεν ἐκείνοισ τὰ πλεῖστα προσνέμειν μέχρι Γαδείρων, φιλέλληνάσ τε ἀποφαίνει τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ πολλὰ ἰδίωσ λέγει περὶ αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐοικότα τοῖσ νῦν. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 12:17)

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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