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φιλίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλίᾱ φιλίας

Structure: φιλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: file/w

Sense

  1. friendship, love, affection, fondness
  2. friendliness, kindliness, without any affection
  3. sexual love, like ἔρως ‎(érōs)
  4. (with regard to things) fondness for
  5. regarded as the natural force which unites discordant elements and movements, as νεῖκος ‎(neîkos) keeps them apart

Declension

First declension

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

  • ΚΑΙ ἤκουσεν Ἰούδασ τὸ ὄνομα τῶν Ρωμαίων, ὅτι εἰσὶ δυνατοὶ ἰσχύϊ καὶ αὐτοὶ εὐδοκοῦσιν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ προστιθεμένοισ αὐτοῖσ, καὶ ὅσοι ἂν προσέλθωσιν αὐτοῖσ, ἱστῶσιν αὐτοῖσ φιλίαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ τῶν φίλων αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπαναπαυομένων αὐτοῖσ συνετήρησαν φιλίαν. καὶ κατεκράτησαν τῶν βασιλειῶν τῶν ἐγγὺσ καὶ τῶν μακράν, καὶ ὅσοι ἤκουον τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν, ἐφοβοῦντο ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:12)
  • καὶ ἐπέλεξεν Ἰούδασ τὸν Εὐπόλεμον υἱὸν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Ἀκκὼσ καὶ Ἰάσονα υἱὸν Ἐλεαζάρου καὶ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ Ρώμην στῆσαι αὐτοῖσ φιλίαν καὶ συμμαχίαν (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:17)
  • καὶ νῦν καθεστάκαμέν σε σήμερον ἀρχιερέα τοῦ ἔθνουσ σου καὶ φίλον βασιλέωσ καλεῖσθαί σε καὶ φρονεῖν τὰ ἡμῶν καὶ συντηρεῖν φιλίαν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:20)
  • τί τοῦτο ἐποιήσαμεν ὅτι προέφθακεν ἡμᾶσ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ τοῦ φιλίαν καταθέσθαι τοῖσ Ἰουδαίοισ εἰσ στήριγμα̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 10:23)

Synonyms

  1. friendship

  2. friendliness

  3. sexual love

  4. fondness for

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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