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φιλοβασιλεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοβασιλεύς φιλοβασιλέως

Structure: φιλοβασιλευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a friend to the king

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλοβασιλεύς φιλοβασιλή φιλοβασιλής
Genitive φιλοβασιλέως φιλοβασιλέοιν φιλοβασιλέων
Dative φιλοβασιλεί φιλοβασιλέοιν φιλοβασιλεῦσιν*
Accusative φιλοβασιλέα φιλοβασιλή φιλοβασιλέᾱς
Vocative φιλοβασιλεύ φιλοβασιλή φιλοβασιλής

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

  • "φιλοβασιλεύσ ἐστιν, Ἡφαιστίων δὲ φιλαλέξανδροσ. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 292)
  • ἐπεὶ γάρ τισ τῶν ἑταίρων εἶπεν μηδὲν καταδεέστερον Ἡφαιστίωνοσ τὸν Κρατερὸν στέργεσθαι, ἐπεφθέγξατο Κρατερὸν μὲν γὰρ εἶναι φιλοβασιλέα, Ἡφαιστίωνα δὲ φιλαλέξανδρον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 114 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a friend to the king

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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