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φιλεραστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλεραστής φιλεραστοῦ

Structure: φιλεραστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who is fond of a lover
  2. one who enjoys having lovers

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλεραστής φιλεραστᾱ́ φιλερασταί
Genitive φιλεραστοῦ φιλερασταῖν φιλεραστῶν
Dative φιλεραστῇ φιλερασταῖν φιλερασταῖς
Accusative φιλεραστήν φιλεραστᾱ́ φιλεραστᾱ́ς
Vocative φιλεραστά φιλεραστᾱ́ φιλερασταί

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

  • διὸ καὶ φιλοκόλακεσ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ καὶ φιλερασταὶ καὶ φιλόμαιμοι καὶ φιλότεκνοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 26:4)
  • πάντωσ μὲν οὖν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ παιδεραστήσ τε καὶ φιλεραστὴσ γίγνεται, ἀεὶ τὸ συγγενὲσ ἀσπαζόμενοσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 164:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who is fond of a lover

  2. one who enjoys having lovers

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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