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φιλομάθεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλομάθεια

Structure: φιλομαθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filomaqh/s

Sense

  1. love of learning

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

  • διῃρήσθωσαν δὴ αἱ ψυχικαὶ καὶ αἱ σωματικαί, οἱο͂ν φιλοτιμία φιλομάθεια· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 134:4)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, μεταλαμβάνειν γε καὶ μεθαρμόττειν ἁμωσγέπωσ περιάγοντασ ἢ στρέφοντασ, οἱο͂ν εὐθὺσ ἡ πολυπραγμοσύνη φιλομάθειὰ τίσ ἐστιν ἀλλοτρίων κακῶν, οὔτε φθόνου δοκοῦσα καθαρεύειν νόσοσ οὔτε κακοηθείασ τί τἀλλότριον, ἄνθρωπε βασκανώτατε, κακὸν ὀξυδορκεῖσ τὸ δ’ ἴδιον παραβλέπεισ; (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 1 2:1)
  • οἱο͂ν εὐθὺσ ἡ πολυπραγμοσύνη φιλομάθειὰ τίσ ἐστιν ἀλλοτρίων κακῶν, οὔτε φθόνου δοκοῦσα καθαρεύειν νόσοσ οὔτε κακοηθείασ. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 1 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. love of learning

Related

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

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