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φιλομουσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλομουσία

Structure: φιλομουσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filo/mousos

Sense

  1. love of the Muses

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

  • ὁ γὰρ Λυκοῦργοσ παρέζευξε τῇ κατὰ πόλεμον ἀσκήσει τὴν φιλομουσίαν, ὅπωσ τὸ ἄγαν πολεμικὸν τῷ ἐμμελεῖ κερασθὲν συμφωνίαν καὶ ἁρμονίαν ἔχῃ· (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 162)
  • "δεῖ δὲ τὸν ἐμμελῶσ σκώμματι χρησόμενον εἰδέναι καὶ νοσήματοσ διαφορὰν πρὸσ ἐπιτήδευμα, λέγω δὲ φιλαργυρίασ καὶ φιλονεικίασ πρὸσ φιλομουσίαν καὶ φιλοθηρίαν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of the Muses

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

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