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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

  • ἐγκώμιον ἐχθὲσ ἀνεγνωσμένον ἐπάρῃ τοῦ μετρίου πέρα τοὺσ φιλοθήρουσ ἡμῖν νεανίσκουσ, ὥστε τἄλλα πάρεργα καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι, πρὸσ τοῦτο παντάπασι ῥυέντασ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 1 3:3)

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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