Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλοίκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοίκειος φιλοίκειον

Structure: φιλοικει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving one's relations

Examples

  • φιλοσυγγενέστατοσ δὲ ὢν καὶ φιλοικειότατοσ ἔσθ’ ὅπῃ μεῖζον ἀγαθὸν νενόμικε τὴν φιλίαν τῆσ συγγενείασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 137:1)

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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