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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

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

  • τοῦτο δὲ ὁ Ποντικὸσ Χαμαιλέων ἐκδέδεκται τῆσ Ἀλκαίου φιλοινίασ ἀπείρωσ ἔχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 35 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. love of wine

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

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