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φιλητέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλητέος φιλητέον

Structure: φιλητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: file/w의 분사형

Sense

  1. one must love

Examples

  • κάτω νυν ἐλθοῦσ’, εἰ φιλητέον, φίλει κείνουσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 4:24)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ἀποδέχηται ὡσ ἀγαθόν, γένηται δὲ μοχθηρὸσ καὶ δοκῇ, ἆρ’ ἔτι φιλητέον; (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 34:2)
  • καὶ φιλητέον δὴ μάλισθ’ ἑαυτόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 88:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must love

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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