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φιλοπόνηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοπόνηρος φιλοπόνηρον

Structure: φιλοπονηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a friend to bad men

Examples

  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ πολύτροπον καὶ περιττὸν αὐτοῦ τῆσ δεινότητοσ οὐκ ὢν ἁπλοῦσ, ἀλλὰ κακοήθησ καὶ φιλοπόνηροσ, ἐθαύμαζεν ὁ βάρβαροσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 24 4:1)
  • φιλοπόνηρον γὰρ οὐ χρὴ εἶναι, οὐδ’ ὁμοιοῦσθαι φαύλῳ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 35:2)

Synonyms

  1. a friend to bad men

Related

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

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