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χρηστοφιλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηστοφιλία

Structure: χρηστοφιλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xrhsto/filos

Sense

  1. the having good friends, the friendship of good men

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

  • πολυφιλία δὲ καὶ χρηστοφιλία οὐκ ἄδηλα, τοῦ φίλου ὡρισμένου, ὅτι ἔστιν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ φίλοσ ὅστισ ἃ οἰέται ἀγαθὰ εἶναι ἐκείνῳ, πρακτικόσ ἐστιν αὐτῶν δι’ ἐκεῖνον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 16:1)

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

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