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φιληλάκατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιληλάκατος φιληλάκατον

Structure: φιληλακατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h)laka/th

Sense

  1. fond of the spindle

Examples

  • καὶ πήνασ, καὶ τόνδε φιληλάκατον καλαθίσκον, στάμονοσ ἀσκητοῦ καὶ τολύπασ φύλακα, παῖσ ἀγαθοῦ Τελέσιλλα Διοκλέοσ ἁ φιλοεργὸσ εἰροκόμων Κούρᾳ θήκατο δεσπότιδι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 160 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of the spindle

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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