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τηλέφιλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τηλέφιλον τηλέφιλου

Structure: τηλεφιλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. faraway-love, love-in-absence

Declension

Second 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

  • ἔγνων πρᾶν, ὅκα μευ μεμναμένω, εἰ φιλέεισ με, οὐδὲ τὸ τηλέφιλον ποτεμάξατο, τὸ πλατάγημα, ἀλλ’ αὔτωσ ἁπαλῷ ποτὶ πάχεοσ ἐξεμαράνθη. (Theocritus, Idylls, 24)

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

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