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φιλόγαμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόγαμος φιλόγαμον

Structure: φιλογαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. longing for marriage

Examples

  • ὤμοσαν τὸν Τυνδάρειον ὁρ́κον οἱ κακόφρονεσ φιλόγαμοι μνηστῆρεσ ‐ ἡ δέ γ’ Ἐλπίσ, οἶμαι μέν, θεόσ, κἀξέπραξεν αὐτὸ μᾶλλον ἢ σὺ καὶ τὸ σὸν σθένοσ ‐ οὓσ λαβὼν στράτευε· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:14)

Synonyms

  1. longing for marriage

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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