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φιλόγαμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: philogamos

Principal Part: φιλόγαμος φιλόγαμον

Structure: φιλογαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. longing for marriage

Examples

  • ὤμοσαν τὸν Τυνδάρειον ὁρ´κον 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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