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φιληδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιληδής φιληδές

Structure: φιληδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: h)=dos

Sense

  1. fond of pleasure

Examples

  • ἐν τῇ Κύπρῳ δ’ οὕτω φιληδεῖ ταῖσ ὑσίν, ὦ δέσποθ’, ὥστε σκατοφαγεῖν ἀπεῖρξε τὸ ζῷον, τοὺσ δὲ βοῦσ ἠνάγκασεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. fond of pleasure

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

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