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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

  • καίτοι πῶσ ἂν ἐκείνων ἄνδρεσ ἀμείνουσ ἢ μᾶλλον φιλέλληνεσ ὄντεσ ἐπιδειχθεῖεν, οἵτινεσ ἔτλησαν ἐπιδεῖν, ὥστε μὴ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ αἴτιοι γενέσθαι τῆσ δουλείασ, ἐρήμην μὲν τὴν πόλιν γιγνομένην, τὴν δὲ χώραν πορθουμένην, ἱερὰ δὲ συλώμενα καὶ νεὼσ ἐμπιμπραμένουσ, ἅπαντα δὲ τὸν πόλεμον περὶ τὴν πατρίδα τὴν αὑτῶν γενόμενον; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 40 5:1)
  • ᾧ καὶ διέδειξαν οὐ φιλολάκωνεσ ὄντεσ, ἀλλ̓ ἁπλῶσ φιλέλληνεσ καὶ φιλοδίκαιοι καὶ φιλελεύθεροι καὶ μισοπόνηροι καὶ μισοτύραννοι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ φιλέλληνεσ; (Plato, Republic, book 5 521:1)

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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