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φιλόθηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόθηρος φιλόθηρον

Structure: φιλοθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/ra

Sense

  1. fond of hunting

Examples

  • λέγει δ’ οὕτωσ οὐκ ἐθέλω, Φιλόθηρε, κατὰ πτόλιν, ἀλλὰ παρ’ Ἥρῃ δαίνυσθαι ζεφύρου πνεύμασι τερπόμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 142)

Synonyms

  1. fond of hunting

Related

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

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