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φιλονεικία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλονεικία

Structure: φιλονεικι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. love of strife, eager rivalry, contentiousness, party-spirit
  2. emulation, eagerly

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

  • ἐρίδων καὶ φθόνων καὶ φιλονεικιῶν, ἔθιζε σεαυτὸν δάκνεσθαι τῶν ἐχθρῶν εὐημερούντων , καὶ παρόξυνε καὶ χάραττε τὸ φιλόνεικον ἐν ἐκείνοισ θηγόμενον. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • εἰ μὴ μέγα τοῖσ κοινοῖσ ἀγαθὸν ἐνόμιζεν εἶναι τὸν πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ζῆλον καὶ τὴν διαφορὰν τῶν ἀρίστων, ταῦτα μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἂν οὕτωσ τισ ἁπλῶσ συγχωρήσειεν αἱ γὰρ ὑπερβολαὶ τῶν φιλονεικιῶν χαλεπαὶ ταῖσ πόλεσι καὶ μεγάλουσ κινδύνουσ ἔχουσι. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 5 4:2)

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

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