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φιλήνεμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλήνεμος φιλήνεμον

Structure: φιληνεμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/nemos

Sense

  1. loving wind, played by the breath

Examples

  • χάλκεον δέ οἱ γνάθων ἐκ πολιᾶν φθεγγομένασ ὑπάκουε μὲν Ἴδα Τένεδόσ τε περιρρύτα Θρηίκιοί τε φιλήνεμοι γύαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 76:2)
  • φυτὸν οὖσαν οὐδ’ ὅτι φιλήνεμόσ ἐστιν ὥσπερ ἡ θάλασσα καὶ γὰρ τοῦτό τινεσ λέγουσιν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὰσ ναυπηγίασ μάλιστα, καὶ γὰρ αὐτὴ καὶ τὰ ἀδελφὰ δένδρα, πεῦκαι καὶ στρόβιλοι, τῶν τε ξύλων παρέχει τὰ πλοϊμώτατα, πίττησ τε καὶ ῥητίνησ ἀλοιφήν, ἧσ ἄνευ τῶν συμπαγέντων ὄφελοσ οὐδὲν ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 8:1)

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

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