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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

  • ἐτύγχανε δὲ συνεστιώμενοσ ἡμῖν καὶ τῶν παλαιῶν τὰ μὲν λέγων τὰ δ’ ἀκούων διὰ φιλανθρωπίαν οὐχ ἧττον ἢ φιλομάθειαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 4:1)
  • "Ἀποδέχομαί σου τὴν φιλομάθειαν καθόσον τῆσ ἀληθινῆσ καὶ εἰσ ὄνησιν τεινούσησ, ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ τῆσ δημώδουσ καὶ εἰσ διαστροφὴν ἠθῶν ἀντέχῃ παιδείασ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 8:2)
  • τοσοῦτον ἤσκει φιλομάθειαν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 25:6)
  • φοιτῶσι γὰρ εἰσ αὐτὰσ πολλοὶ καὶ διατρίβουσιν αὐτόθι ἄσμενοι, τῶν δ’ ἐπιχωρίων οὐ πολλοὺσ οὔτ’ ἂν ἔξω φοιτῶντασ ἴδοισ κατὰ φιλομάθειαν, οὔτ’ αὐτόθι περὶ τοῦτο σπουδάζοντασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 26:5)

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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