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φιλογέλοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλογέλοιος φιλογέλοιον

Structure: φιλογελοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of the ludicrous

Examples

  • ἀκολασίασ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ αἱρεῖσθαι τὰσ ἀπολαύσεισ τῶν ἡδονῶν τῶν βλαβερῶν καὶ αἰσχρῶν, καὶ τὸ ὑπολαμβάνειν εὐδαιμονεῖν μάλιστα τοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ τοιαύταισ ἡδοναῖσ ὄντασ, καὶ τὸ φιλογέλοιον εἶναι καὶ τὸ φιλοσκώπτην καὶ φιλευτράπελον, καὶ τὸ ῥᾳδιουργὸν εἶναι ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἔργοισ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 33:1)
  • ὅθεν ὀδυρτικοί εἰσι, καὶ οὐκ εὐτράπελοι οὐδὲ φιλογέλοιοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 15:4)

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

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