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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

  • ἀλλοίαν τοι δόξαν ἕξουσιν, ἐὰν αὐτοῖσ μὴ φιλονικῶν ἀλλὰ παραμυθούμενοσ καὶ ἀπολυόμενοσ τὴν τῆσ φιλομαθείασ διαβολὴν ἐνδεικνύῃ οὓσ λέγεισ τοὺσ φιλοσόφουσ, καὶ διορίζῃ ὥσπερ ἄρτι τήν τε φύσιν αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν ἐπιτήδευσιν, ἵνα μὴ ἡγῶνταί σε λέγειν οὓσ αὐτοὶ οἰόνται. (Plato, Republic, book 6 311:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτου δὲ καὶ Πυθαγόραν ἱστοροῦσιν ἰδόντα φυομένην τὴν τυραννίδα ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἀπελθεῖν εἰσ Αἴγυπτον καὶ Βαβυλῶνα φιλομαθείασ χάριν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 26:10)

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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