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φιλοίκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοίκειος φιλοίκειον

Structure: φιλοικει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's relations

Examples

  • διὸ πάλιν τῶν ἀδελφῶν παραλαβουσῶν τὸν ἐν ταῖσ ἐξόδοισ κόσμον καὶ τὴν περίστασιν τὴν τῆσ Αἰμιλίασ, πάλιν ἐκαινοποιήθη τὸ μεγαλόψυχον καὶ φιλοίκειον τῆσ τοῦ Σκιπίωνοσ προαιρέσεωσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 31, chapter 28 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. loving one's relations

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

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