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φιλεργία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλεργία

Structure: φιλεργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. love of labour, industry

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλεργία φιλεργίᾱ φιλεργίαι
Genitive φιλεργίᾱς φιλεργίαιν φιλεργιῶν
Dative φιλεργίᾱͅ φιλεργίαιν φιλεργίαις
Accusative φιλεργίᾱν φιλεργίᾱ φιλεργίᾱς
Vocative φιλεργίᾱ φιλεργίᾱ φιλεργίαι

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

  • αὕτη δ’ ἡ φιλεργία τὴν σωφροσύνην αὐτῆσ καταμηνύει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 17 3:2)
  • θηλειῶν δὲ ἀρετὴ σώματοσ μὲν κάλλοσ καὶ μέγεθοσ, ψυχῆσ δὲ σωφροσύνη καὶ φιλεργία ἄνευ ἀνελευθερίασ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 6:5)
  • ἃ δὲ ἔστι παῤ αὐτῶν, ἔχειν, εὐταξίᾳ τῶν ἄλλων δήμων διαφέροντασ, αἰδοῖ, τῷ πείθεσθαι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀνδράσι, φιλεργίᾳ, σωφροσύνῃ τῇ περὶ τὸν καθ̓ ἡμέραν βίον, τῷ μήτε τῶν σωμάτων ἀμελεῖν μήτε τῆσ ψυχῆσ, καθ̓ ὅσον ἑκάστῳ σχολὴν δίδωσι τὰ αὑτοῦ πράγματα, τῷ προθύμωσ ἐκτρέφειν τέκνα καὶ παιδεύειν, τῷ παρέχειν Ἑλληνικὴν τῷ ὄντι καὶ ἀθόρυβον καὶ καθεστῶσαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸ δριμὺ καὶ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον τῆσ φύσεωσ καὶ τὴν σύνεσιν ἐπὶ τὰ μείζω καὶ καλλίω τρέπειν, διχοφροσύνησ δὲ καὶ ταραχῆσ καὶ τοῦ προσκρούειν ἀλλήλοισ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε ἀπέχεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of labour

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

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