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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

  • ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τοῦ πατρόσ, ὦ φίλτατον Ἑρμάδιον, μὴ καταλίπῃσ με, περιήγησαι δὲ τὰ ἐν τῷ βίῳ ἅπαντα, ὥσ τι καὶ ἰδὼν ἐπανέλθοιμι· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 1:13)
  • ἀλλά νιν ἅδε γᾶ καπφθίμενον Θρῃκὶ μόρῳ φίλτατον ἄχθοσ οἴσει. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ὦ νέον ὑπαγκάλισμα μητρὶ φίλτατον, ὦ χρωτὸσ ἡδὺ πνεῦμα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:8)
  • τὸ φίλτατον δὲ σῶμα ποῦ παιδόσ, πάτερ; (Euripides, episode 4:24)
  • βλέψον νυν ἐσ τόνδ’, ὦ τέκνον, τὸν φίλτατον. (Euripides, episode 3:26)

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

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