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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

  • Ἐμπειρίᾳσ τε γὰρ ἐνδεὴσ ἦν καὶ τῶν πράξεων αὐτοῦ τὴν χάριν ἀφῄρουν αἱ συγγενεῖσ κῆρεσ ἐπιφερόμεναι, φιλοκέρδεια καὶ μικρολογία. (Plutarch, chapter 6 5:2)
  • οὐκοῦν ταῦτά ἐστι πάντα ἐν οἷσ ἐσμὲν τοιοῦτοι, θυμόσ, ἔρωσ, ὕβρισ, ἀμαθία, φιλοκέρδεια, δειλία, καὶ ἔτι τοιάδε, πλοῦτοσ, κάλλοσ, ἰσχύσ, καὶ πάνθ’ ὅσα δι’ ἡδονῆσ αὖ μεθύσκοντα παράφρονασ ποιεῖ; (Plato, Laws, book 1 152:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἶσοσ γὰρ ὁ μόχθοσ ἐπ’ ᾀόνι κύματα μετρεῖν, ὅσσ’ ἄνεμοσ χέρσονδε μετὰ γλαυκᾶσ ἁλὸσ ὠθεῖ, ἢ ὕδατι νίζειν θολερὰν διαειδέι πλίνθον, καὶ φιλοκερδείᾳ βεβλαμμένον ἄνδρα παρελθεῖν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 26)
  • ἑλόντεσ μὲν γὰρ πολέμια νικῶσι, μὴ ἑλόντεσ δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι πάσησ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐχθροῖσ ἐπιχειροῦσιν ἔπαινον ἔχουσιν, ἔπειτα ὅτι οὔτ’ ἐπ’ ἀνδρὸσ βλάβῃ οὔτε φιλοκερδείᾳ ἔρχονται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 13 14:3)

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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