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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

  • καὶ αἱ φιλήσεισ ἄρα καὶ αἱ φιλίαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 21:2)
  • ἕτεραι οὖν καὶ αἱ φιλήσεισ καὶ αἱ φιλίαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 68:3)
  • ἐὰν δὲ προστατήσῃσ ὅπωσ ἐνεργοὶ ὦσι, σὺ μὲν ἐκείνασ φιλήσεισ, ὁρῶν ὠφελίμουσ σεαυτῷ οὔσασ, ἐκεῖναι δὲ σὲ ἀγαπήσουσιν, αἰσθόμεναι χαίροντά σε αὐταῖσ, τῶν δὲ προγεγονυιῶν εὐεργεσιῶν ἥδιον μεμνημένοι τὴν ἀπ’ ἐκείνων χάριν αὐξήσετε, καὶ ἐκ τούτων φιλικώτερόν τε καὶ οἰκειότερον ἀλλήλοισ ἕξετε. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 10:3)

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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