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φιλόφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόφρων φιλόφρονος

Structure: φιλοφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. kindly minded, kindly, friendly, affable, kindly, kindly minded

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλόφρων φιλόφρονε φιλόφρονες
Genitive φιλόφρονος φιλοφρόνοιν φιλοφρόνων
Dative φιλόφρονι φιλοφρόνοιν φιλόφροσιν*
Accusative φιλόφρονα φιλόφρονε φιλόφρονας
Vocative φιλόφρων φιλόφρονε φιλόφρονες

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

  • φησὶν γὰρ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Μελῶν ὁ Μεγίστησ δ’ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπείτε στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 11 4:3)
  • ὁ γοῦν Ἀνακρέων φησίν ὁ Μεγίστησ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπειδὴ στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 14 2:2)
  • φιλόφρων γὰρ παρασαίνει βροτὸν εἰσ ἄρκυασ Ἄτα, τόθεν οὐκ ἔστιν ὕπερθέν νιν ἄνατον ἐξαλύξαι. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 41)
  • οὐ φθίνει Κροίσου φιλόφρων ἀρετά· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 33:1)
  • ὡσ μὲν γὰρ ἄγαταί τε καὶ φιλεῖ τὸν ἐρώμενον θάλλουσα μορφῇ τε ἐλευθερίᾳ καὶ ἤθει αἰδήμονί τε καὶ γενναίῳ ψυχὴ εὐθὺσ ἐν τοῖσ ἥλιξιν ἡγεμονική τε ἅμα καὶ φιλόφρων οὖσα οὐδὲν ἐπιδεῖται λόγου· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. kindly minded

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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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