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φιλόπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόπονος φιλόπονον

Structure: φιλοπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving labour, laborious, industrious, diligent, diligent
  2. toilsome, laborious

Examples

  • καθόλου γὰρ ἡ πρὸσ τὰ ἔγγονα φιλοστοργία καὶ τολμηρὰ τὰ δειλὰ ποιεῖ, καὶ φιλόπονα τὰ ῥᾴθυμα καὶ φειδωλὰ τὰ γαστρίμαργα· (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 2 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. toilsome

Related

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

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