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φιλοινία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοινία

Structure: φιλοινι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fi/loinos

Sense

  1. love of wine

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλοινία φιλοινίᾱ φιλοινίαι
Genitive φιλοινίᾱς φιλοινίαιν φιλοινιῶν
Dative φιλοινίᾱͅ φιλοινίαιν φιλοινίαις
Accusative φιλοινίᾱν φιλοινίᾱ φιλοινίᾱς
Vocative φιλοινίᾱ φιλοινίᾱ φιλοινίαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ’ ἔθηκε δέ, ’ φησί, ̔καὶ διὰ τὴν φιλοινίαν τῶν Ἰνδῶν καὶ ἀκρατοποσίασ ἀγῶνα, καὶ ἦν ἆθλον τῷ μὲν πρώτῳ τάλαντον, τῷ δὲ δευτέρῳ τριάκοντα μναῖ καὶ τῷ τρίτῳ δέκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 49 1:1)
  • "Κρατῖνοσ δὲ τὴν πυτίνην εἰσ τὴν φιλοινίαν ἐδίδαξεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:8)
  • διὸ καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν Ἰταλικῶν ἐμπόρων διὰ τὴν συνήθη φιλαργυρίαν ἑρ́μαιον ἡγοῦνται τὴν τῶν Γαλατῶν φιλοινίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 26 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. love of wine

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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