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φίλιππος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλιππος φίλιππον

Structure: φιλιππ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of horses, horse-loving

Examples

  • ἢ ὅτι πάντων τῶν βασιλέων φιλιππότατοσ ὢν . (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 522)
  • ἔνθα Κῦροσ αἰδημονέστατοσ μὲν πρῶτον τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν ἐδόκει εἶναι, τοῖσ τε πρεσβυτέροισ καὶ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὑποδεεστέρων μᾶλλον πείθεσθαι, ἔπειτα δὲ φιλιππότατοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἵπποισ ἄριστα χρῆσθαι· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 9 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of horses

Related

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

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