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φιλεραστία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλεραστία

Structure: φιλεραστι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filerasth/s

Sense

  1. devotion to a lover

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλεραστία φιλεραστίᾱ φιλεραστίαι
Genitive φιλεραστίᾱς φιλεραστίαιν φιλεραστιῶν
Dative φιλεραστίᾱͅ φιλεραστίαιν φιλεραστίαις
Accusative φιλεραστίᾱν φιλεραστίᾱ φιλεραστίᾱς
Vocative φιλεραστίᾱ φιλεραστίᾱ φιλεραστίαι

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

  • ὁρ́α οὖν μή τι καὶ νῦν ἐργάσηται, ἀλλὰ διάλλαξον ἡμᾶσ, ἢ ἐὰν ἐπιχειρῇ βιάζεσθαι, ἐπάμυνε, ὡσ ἐγὼ τὴν τούτου μανίαν τε καὶ φιλεραστίαν πάνυ ὀρρωδῶ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 446:1)

Synonyms

  1. devotion to a lover

Similar forms

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

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