Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλογυμναστία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλογυμναστία

Structure: φιλογυμναστι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. fondness for gymnastic exercises

Examples

  • τοῖσ γὰρ βαρβάροισ διὰ τὰσ τυραννίδασ αἰσχρὸν τοῦτό γε καὶ ἥ γε φιλοσοφία καὶ ἡ φιλογυμναστία· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 96:3)

Synonyms

  1. fondness for gymnastic exercises

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

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