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φιλομυθία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλομυθία

Structure: φιλομυθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filo/mu_qos

Sense

  1. a love of fables

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλομυθία φιλομυθίᾱ φιλομυθίαι
Genitive φιλομυθίᾱς φιλομυθίαιν φιλομυθιῶν
Dative φιλομυθίᾱͅ φιλομυθίαιν φιλομυθίαις
Accusative φιλομυθίᾱν φιλομυθίᾱ φιλομυθίᾱς
Vocative φιλομυθίᾱ φιλομυθίᾱ φιλομυθίαι

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὔτε περὶ τούτων οὐδὲν ἠκρίβωτο πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν, οὔτε τὰ παλαιὰ τῶν Περσικῶν οὔτε τῶν Μηδικῶν ἢ Συριακῶν ἐσ πίστιν ἀφικνεῖτο μεγάλην διὰ τὴν τῶν συγγραφέων ἁπλότητα καὶ τὴν φιλομυθίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 6 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. a love of fables

Similar forms

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

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