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φιλοπραγμοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοπραγμοσύνη

Structure: φιλοπραγμοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from filopra/gmwn

Sense

  1. a busy disposition, meddlesomeness, restless habits of life

Examples

  • οὐδεμιᾷ φιλοπραγμοσύνῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, , chapter 13 1:8)
  • οὐδεμιᾷ φιλοπραγμοσύνῃ μὰ τοὺσ θεούσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, τὴν δίκην ταύτην ἔλαχον Βοιωτῷ, οὐδ’ ἠγνόουν ὅτι πολλοῖσ ἄτοπον δόξει τὸ δίκην ἐμὲ λαγχάνειν, εἴ τισ ἐμοὶ ταὐτὸν ὄνομ’ οἰέται δεῖν ἔχειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 2:1)

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

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