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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

  • ἀλλ’ οἱ πολλοὶ τὰσ πολυφιλίασ ἃ δύνανται παρέχειν μόνον ὡσ,· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 6 7:1)
  • "εὖ ποίει τοὺσ φίλουσ καὶ ἐνδόξουσ ἄγε νῦν δ’ ἰσοβασιλέασ πάντασ ποιεῖσ καὶ πολυφιλίασ παρασκευάζεισ αὐτοῖσ, ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐρημοῖσ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 39 5:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀρίστησ πολιτείασ ἔχει πολλὴν ἀπορίαν, οὐ κατὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἀγαθῶν τὴν ὑπεροχήν, οἱο͂ν ἰσχύοσ καὶ πλούτου καὶ πολυφιλίασ, ἀλλὰ ἄν τισ γένηται διαφέρων κατ’ ἀρετήν, τί χρὴ ποιεῖν; (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 228:1)

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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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