Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φιλόκοσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόκοσμος φιλόκοσμον

Structure: φιλοκοσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving ornament

Examples

  • τοὺσ δ’ ἀνθρώπουσ τὰ ἄλλα μὲν εὐτελεῖσ εἶναι φιλοκόσμουσ δέ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 60:8)

Synonyms

  1. loving ornament

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

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