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φιλοθηρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοθηρία

Structure: φιλοθηρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. love of hunting, love of the chase

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλοθηρία φιλοθηρίᾱ φιλοθηρίαι
Genitive φιλοθηρίᾱς φιλοθηρίαιν φιλοθηριῶν
Dative φιλοθηρίᾱͅ φιλοθηρίαιν φιλοθηρίαις
Accusative φιλοθηρίᾱν φιλοθηρίᾱ φιλοθηρίᾱς
Vocative φιλοθηρίᾱ φιλοθηρίᾱ φιλοθηρίαι

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

  • "δεῖ δὲ τὸν ἐμμελῶσ σκώμματι χρησόμενον εἰδέναι καὶ νοσήματοσ διαφορὰν πρὸσ ἐπιτήδευμα, λέγω δὲ φιλαργυρίασ καὶ φιλονεικίασ πρὸσ φιλομουσίαν καὶ φιλοθηρίαν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 13:1)
  • μὴ μέντοι, ἔφη, ὦ Χρυσάντα, οὕτωσ αὖ ποίει ὥσπερ ἐνίοτε διὰ τὴν φιλοθηρίαν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 31:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of hunting

Similar forms

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

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