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πολύφιλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύφιλος πολύφιλον

Structure: πολυφιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dear to many

Examples

  • αὐτοὶ δ’ οἰόνται δυνατοὶ εἶναι μάλιστα ἀζήμιοι ἀδικεῖν οἱ εἰπεῖν δυνάμενοι καὶ οἱ πρακτικοὶ καὶ οἱ ἔμπειροι πολλῶν ἀγώνων, κἂν πολύφιλοι ὦσιν, κἂν πλούσιοι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 2:2)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἄρχοντεσ καὶ δυνάμενοι καὶ πολύφιλοι καὶ εὔτεκνοι καὶ ὁτιοῦν τῶν τοιούτων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 9 9:3)
  • οἱ δὲ πολύφιλοι καὶ πᾶσιν οἰκείωσ ἐντυγχάνοντεσ οὐδενὶ δοκοῦσιν εἶναι φίλοι, πλὴν πολιτικῶσ, οὓσ καὶ καλοῦσιν ἀρέσκουσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 132:1)

Synonyms

  1. dear to many

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

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