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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

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

  • "3 ὁ μὲν οὖν ἄνθρωποσ ἀπεκρίνατο ἀγνοῶν, ὁ δὲ Πεισίστρατοσ ἡσθεὶσ διὰ τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὴν φιλεργίαν ἀτελῆ πάντων ἐποίησεν αὐτόν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 16 6:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ δι’ ἀπορίαν ταῦτ’ ὤφειλεν, ἀλλὰ διὰ φιλεργίαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 8:1)
  • οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι νομίζουσιν, ὧν καὶ ὁ Ιὄβασ ἐστί, παράκλησιν εἶναι καὶ παρακέλευσιν εἰσ φιλεργίαν καὶ ταλασίαν, οὔπω τότε τοῖσ Ἑλληνικοῖσ ὀνόμασι τῶν Ἰταλικῶν ἐπικεχυμένων. (Plutarch, chapter 15 3:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἰ οἰκέτησ ὑμῶν, μὴ πολίτησ ἦν, ὁρῶντεσ ἄν μου τὴν φιλεργίαν καὶ τὴν εἰσ ὑμᾶσ εὔνοιαν, ἀνεπαύσατ’ ἄν με τῶν ἀναλωμάτων καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν δραπετεύοντα τῶν ἄλλων ἤλθετε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 42:1)
  • ἀλλὰ ἄλλον τοι εὐθὺσ ἀντεωνεῖτο, ἀργὸν δέ, διὰ τὴν φιλεργίαν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 27:5)

Synonyms

  1. love of labour

Related

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

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