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φιλοκοσμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοκοσμία

Structure: φιλοκοσμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filo/kosmos

Sense

  1. love of ornament or show

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

  • περὶ δὲ φιλοκοσμίασ σὺ μέν, ὦ Εὐρυδίκη, τὰ πρὸσ Ἀρίστυλλαν ὑπὸ Τιμοξένασ γεγραμμένα ἀναγνοῦσα πειρῶ διαμνημονεύειν σὺ δέ, ὦ Πολλιανέ, μὴ νόμιζε περιεργίασ ἀφέξεσθαι τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ πολυτελείασ, ἂν ὁρᾷ σε μὴ καταφρονοῦντα τούτων ἐν ἑτέροισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ χαίροντα χρυσώσεσιν ἐκπωμάτων καὶ γραφαῖσ οἰκηματίων καὶ χλίδωσιν ἡμιόνων καὶ ἵππων περιδεραίοισ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 481)

Synonyms

  1. love of ornament or show

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

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