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φιλομήτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλομήτωρ φιλομήτορος

Structure: φιλομητορος (Stem)

Etym.: mh/thr

Sense

  1. loving one's mother

Declension

Third 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

  • διὸ καὶ τῶν βασιλέων τοὺσ μὴ θεοὺσ μηδὲ παῖδασ θεῶν ἀναγορεύεσθαι θέλοντασ ἀλλὰ Φιλαδέλφουσ ἢ φιλομήτορασ ἢ Εὐεργέτασ ἢ Θεοφιλεῖσ, οὐκ ἤχθοντο ταῖσ καλαῖσ μὲν ἀνθρωπικαῖσ δὲ ταύταισ προσηγορίαισ τιμῶντεσ. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 12 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. loving one's mother

Related

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

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