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φιλοκέρδεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοκέρδεια

Structure: φιλοκερδει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filokerdh/s

Sense

  1. love of gain, greed

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

  • Αἰγυπτίοισ τρυφεροῖσ καὶ ῥᾳθύμοισ πρὸσ πόνουσ οὖσι καὶ τῶν τε ἄλλων ἡδονῶν ἥττοσι καὶ δὴ καὶ τῆσ κατὰ φιλοκέρδειαν συνέβη δεινῶσ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἑβραίουσ διατεθῆναι κατὰ φθόνον τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 251:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of gain

Related

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

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