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φιλοξενία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοξενία

Structure: φιλοξενι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filo/cenos

Sense

  1. hospitality

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

  • τῷ δὴ τοιούτῳ παντὶ χρὴ καταλύσεισ πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ εἶναι φιλοξενίαισ ἀνθρώπων παρεσκευασμένασ, χρὴ δὲ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἱερέασ τε καὶ νεωκόρουσ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ τημελεῖν, ἑώσ ἂν τὸν μέτριον ἐπιμείναντεσ χρόνον, ἰδόντεσ τε καὶ ἀκούσαντεσ ὧν χάριν ἀφίκοντο, ἀβλαβεῖσ τοῦ δρᾶσαί τε καὶ παθεῖν ἀπαλλάττωνται. (Plato, Laws, book 12 80:2)
  • Βούσιρισ, παῖσ Ποσειδῶνοσ καὶ Ἀνίππησ τῆσ Νείλου, τοὺσ παριόντασ ὑπούλῳ φιλοξενίᾳ κατέθυε. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 381)

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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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