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φίλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλησις φίλησεως

Structure: φιλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: file/w

Sense

  1. a feeling of affection

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φίλησις φιλήσει φιλήσεις
Genitive φιλήσεως φιλήσοιν φιλήσεων
Dative φιλήσει φιλήσοιν φιλήσεσιν*
Accusative φίλησιν φιλήσει φιλήσεις
Vocative φίλησι φιλήσει φιλήσεις

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

  • τὸν πυραμοῦντα λήψεται καὶ τὰ κοττάβεια καὶ τῶν παρουσῶν ἣν θέλει χὂν θέλει φιλήσει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 71)
  • αὐτὸν ἔχουσα φιλήσει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 24 2:5)
  • αἰ δὲ μὴ φίλει, ταχέωσ φιλήσει κωὐκ ἐθέλοισα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2328)
  • πρὸσ ἡμῶν κάππεσε, κάτθανε, καὶ καταθάψομεν, οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων, ἀλλ’ Ἰφιγένειά νιν ἀσπασίωσ θυγάτηρ, ὡσ χρή, πατέρ’ ἀντιάσασα πρὸσ ὠκύπορον πόρθμευμ’ ἀχέων περὶ χεῖρε βαλοῦσα φιλήσει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, anapests2)
  • τίσ εὖ εἰπόντα φιλήσει; (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)

Synonyms

  1. a feeling of affection

Related

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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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