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φιλόφιλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόφιλος φιλόφιλον

Structure: φιλοφιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's friends

Examples

  • ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ τῇ ἐλευθεριότητι τοῦ ἤθουσ ὑγρότησ καὶ εὐαγωγία καὶ φιλανθρωπία καὶ τὸ εἶναι ἐλεητικὸν καὶ φιλόφιλον καὶ φιλόξενον καὶ φιλόκαλον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 24:3)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα οἱο͂ν φίλοικον εἶναι καὶ φιλόφιλον, φιλέταιρον, φιλόξενον, φιλάνθρωπον καὶ φιλόκαλον· (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 45:3)
  • καὶ ὅλωσ τοὺσ σφόδρα φιλοφίλουσ καὶ μὴ ἐγκαταλείποντασ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 4 26:3)
  • καὶ φιλόφιλοι καὶ φιλέταιροι μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων ἡλικιῶν διὰ τὸ χαίρειν τῷ συζῆν καὶ μήπω πρὸσ τὸ συμφέρον κρίνειν μηδέν, ὥστε μηδὲ τοὺσ φίλουσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 12 13:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ φιλοφίλουσ ἐπαινοῦμεν, ἥ τε πολυφιλία δοκεῖ τῶν καλῶν ἕν τι εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 7:3)

Synonyms

  1. loving one's friends

Related

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

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