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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

  • αὐτόσ τε οὖν ἡσθεὶσ ἀπήντα τοῖσ ἄγουσι, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οἱ πυνθανόμενοι ζῶντα Βροῦτον κομίζεσθαι συνετρόχαζον, οἱ μὲν ἐλεεινὸν ἡγούμενοι τῆσ τύχησ, οἱ δὲ τῆσ δόξησ ἀνάξιον, ἄγραν βαρβάρων ὑπὸ φιλοψυχίασ γενόμενον. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 50 2:2)
  • νῦν δ’ ὅτι τούτων ἐγγύτατα φιλοψυχίασ ἕνεκα, ἵνα τὸν ἐπίλοιπον βίον μὴ κινδυνεύῃ, ζῇ δὲ ὡσ πλεῖστον χρόνον ὢν κακὸσ ὀνείδει συνεχόμενοσ, ἔστω νόμοσ ὅδε ἐπὶ τούτοισ· (Plato, Laws, book 12 25:1)

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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