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στοργή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στοργή στοργῆς

Structure: στοργ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ste/rgw

Sense

  1. love, affection; especially of parents and children
  2. (rarely) sexual love

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

  • θεωρεῖτε δὲ πῶσ πολύπλοκόσ ἐστιν ἡ τῆσ φιλοτεκνίασ στοργὴ ἕλκουσα πάντα πρὸσ τὴν τῶν σπλάγχνων συμπάθειαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:13)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ μὴ δύναιντο κωλύειν, περιϊπτάμενα κυκλόθεν αὐτῶν ἀλγοῦντα τῇ στοργῇ, ἀνακαλούμενα τῇ ἰδίᾳ φωνῇ, καθ’ ὃν δύναται τρόπον βοηθεῖ τοῖσ τέκνοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:17)
  • "εἰ δὲ χρησμοὶ καὶ μαντικὴ καὶ θεῶν πρόνοια καὶ γονέων πρὸσ ἔκγονα στοργὴ καὶ ἀγάπησισ καὶ πολιτεία καὶ ἡγεμονία καὶ τὸ ἄρχειν ἔνδοξόν ἐστι καὶ εὐκλεέσ, οὕτωσ ἀνάγκη τοὺσ λέγοντασ, ὡσ οὐ δεῖ σῴζειν τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἀλλ’ ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν ἀβλαβῶσ τῇ γαστρὶ καὶ κεχαρισμένωσ, ἀδοξεῖν καὶ κακοὺσ νομίζεσθαι· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 1910)
  • γαίῃ μὲν γάρ, φησί, γαῖαν ὀπώπαμεν, ὕδατι δ’ ὕδωρ,αἰθέρι δ’ αἰθέρα δῖον, ἀτὰρ πυρὶ πῦρ ἀί̈δηλον,στοργὴν δὲ στοργῇ, νεῖκοσ δέ τε νείκεϊ λυγρῷ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 3 118:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἠγάπησεν αὐτὸν μάλιστα τῶν ἐν στοργῇ φίλων δοξαζομένων καὶ μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν ἐτίμησεν αὐτὸν ἀνυπερβλήτωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 114 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. love

  2. sexual love

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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