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πολυφιλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυφιλία

Structure: πολυφιλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/filos

Sense

  1. abundance of friends

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

  • ὅταν δὲ ἤδη πολὺ ὑπερτείνωσι ταῖσ οὐσίαισ καὶ ταῖσ πολυφιλίαισ, ἐγγὺσ ἡ τοιαύτη δυναστεία μοναρχίασ ἐστίν, καὶ κύριοι γίνονται οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁ νόμοσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 108:2)

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

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