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φιλοψυχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοψυχία

Structure: φιλοψυχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from filoyu_xe/w

Sense

  1. love of life

Declension

First declension

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

  • καὶ Σαβῖνοσ εἷσ τῶν Γαί̈ου σφαγέων σφάζειν πρότερον αὑτὸν ἠπείλει παρελθὼν εἰσ μέσουσ ἢ Κλαύδιον ἄρχοντα στήσεσθαι καὶ δουλοκρατίαν ἐπόψεσθαι καταλαβοῦσαν, τόν τε Χαιρέαν εἰσ φιλοψυχίαν ἐπέπλησσεν, εἰ καταφρονήσασ Γαί̈ου πρῶτοσ ἀγαθὸν ὑπολαμβάνοι τὸ ζῆν τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ οὐδ’ οὕτωσ ἀποδοθῆναι δυναμένησ τῇ πατρίδι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 298:1)

Synonyms

  1. love of life

Related

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

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