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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

  • ἡ δὲ φιλοτιμία, καίπερ οὖσα σοβαρωτέρα τῆσ φιλοκερδείασ, οὐκ ἐλάττονασ ἔχει κῆρασ ἐν πολιτείᾳ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 271)
  • Οὐδὲν μικρότερον φιλοκερδείασ καὶ φιληδονίασ καὶ ἀλαζονείασ· (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 45:1)

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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