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φιλόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόσιτος φιλόσιτον

Structure: φιλοσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of corn, occupied about it
  2. fond of food, fond of eating

Examples

  • καὶ νέον ὄντα καὶ μήπω λόγον ἔχοντα τί τε χρηστὸν καὶ μή, οὐ φήσομεν φιλομαθῆ οὐδὲ φιλόσοφον εἶναι, ὥσπερ τὸν περὶ τὰ σιτία δυσχερῆ οὔτε πεινῆν φαμεν οὔτ’ ἐπιθυμεῖν σιτίων, οὐδὲ φιλόσιτον ἀλλὰ κακόσιτον εἶναι. (Plato, Republic, book 5 608:1)

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

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