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φιλοπονία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοπονία

Structure: φιλοπονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. love of labour, laboriousness, industry, laborious practice

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

  • παραφυλάττοντασ ἐξ ὧν πλέον ἔχουσι, καὶ πειρωμένουσ ὑπερβαλέσθαι ταῖσ ἐπιμελείαισ καὶ φιλοπονίαισ καὶ τῷ σωφρονεῖν καὶ προσέχειν ἑαυτοῖσ, ὡσ Θεμιστοκλῆσ ἔλεγεν οὐκ ἐᾶν αὐτὸν καθεύδειν τὴν ἐν Μαραθῶνι Μιλτιάδου νίκην. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 10 9:1)
  • ἔτι δ’ αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ Λάκωνασ ἴσμεν, ἑώσ μὲν αὐτοὶ προσήδρευον ταῖσ φιλοπονίαισ, ὑπερέχοντασ τῶν ἄλλων, νῦν δὲ κἀν τοῖσ γυμνικοῖσ ἀγῶσι κἀν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ λειπομένουσ ἑτέρων· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 39:1)
  • οἵ γε προφανῶσ ταῖσ σφετέραισ φιλοπονίαισ καὶ τόλμαισ ἐξ ἐλαχίστησ μὲν βασιλείασ ἐνδοξοτάτην καὶ μεγίστην τὴν Μακεδόνων ἀρχὴν κατεσκεύασαν· (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 10 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of labour

Related

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

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