Hellas Alive Dictionary - φιλτατος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλτατος φίλτατη φίλτατον

Structure: φιλτατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

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

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	φίλτατος φιλτάτου	φιλτατώτερος φιλτατωτέρου	φιλτατώτατος φιλτατωτάτου
Adverb	φιλτάτως	φιλτατώτερον	φιλτατώτατα

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.

ἐμοὶ μέντοι καὶ τῷ φιλτάτῳ Καικιλίῳ δοκεῖ τὰ ἐνθυμήματα αὐτοῦ μάλιστα μιμήσασθαί τε καὶ ζηλῶσαι Δημοσθένησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 20:4)
ὀφθησόμεσθα, καὶ τεκνοκτόνον μύσοσ ἐσ ὄμμαθ’ ἥξει φιλτάτῳ ξένων ἐμῶν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:29)
εὐμενέστερον γὰρ ἂν τῷ φιλτάτῳ μοι Μενέλεῳ τὰ πρόσφορα δρῴησ ἄν, ἡμῶν τυγχάνων οἱών σε χρή. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:50)
ὦ γηροβοσκὼ μητρόσ, ὦ γάμουσ ἐμοὺσ προδόντ’ ἀδελφὼ φιλτάτω. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 5:6)
"βασιλεὺσ Ἀγρίππασ Ιὠσήπῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. (Flavius Josephus, 430:1)

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

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