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φίλτατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλτατος φίλτατη φίλτατον

Structure: φιλτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: irreg. Sup. of fi/los, Hom., Trag.

Sense

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ οὔτε τὰσ φωνὰσ αὐτῶν οὔτε τὰσ οἰμωγὰσ ἀνασχόμενοσ ἐκέλευσε τοῖσ ὑπηρέταισ ἀπάγειν τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ ὀλοφυρομένουσ καὶ ἀντιβολοῦντασ καὶ ταῖσ φιλτάταισ αὐτὸν ἀνακαλουμένουσ προσηγορίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 8 6:1)

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

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