Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φιλίη ‎(philíē) (Ionic)

Noun

φῐλίᾱ • ‎(philíā) f ‎(genitive φιλίας); first declension

1. friendship, love, affection, fondness
   • Xenophon, Symposium 8.15, (Compare Plato, Symposium 179.C, Phaedrus 237.C, 255.E)
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 9.B
   • Antidotus 130
   • Plato, Symposium 185.C
   • Xenophon, Hiero 3.7
   • Aristotle, Poetics 14.9
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.3, (Compare Isocrates, Collected Works 352.B)
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 306, (Compare Andocides, Collected Works 27.10)
   • Herodotus, Histories 7.130
   • Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.29
   • Euripides, Hippolytus 253
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.28
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.8
   • Plato, Phaedrus 237.C
   • Lysias, Collected Works 214.D
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 424.A
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1102
   • Euripides, Alcestis 930
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 302.E
   • Lysias, Collected Works 114.2
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 118.B
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.5, (Compare 6.34, 6.78)
   • Plato, The Statesman 304.E
   • Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.10
   • Plato, Laws 823.B
   • Isocrates, 88 D
   • Isocrates, Collected Works 100.C
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.91
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 600.1102
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.29
   • Euripides, Orestes 138
   • Herodotus, Histories 3.82
   • Plato, Symposium 182.C
2. friendliness, kindliness, without any affection
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.7.13
   • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 4.6.5
3. sexual love, like ἔρως ‎(érōs)
   • Lxx, Proverbs 5.19
4. (with regard to things) fondness for
   • Plato, The Republic 581.A
   • Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7.10
5. regarded as the natural force which unites discordant elements and movements, as νεῖκος ‎(neîkos) keeps them apart
   • Aristotle, Physics 8.1.3
   • Aristotle, Metaphysics 1.4.2

Inflection

Synonyms

• (friendship, love, affection, fondness): φῐλότης ‎(philótēs)

Antonyms

• (friendship): ἔχθρα ‎(ékhthra), μῖσος ‎(mîsos)

Descendants

• English: -philia
• Greek: φιλία ‎(filía)

References

• φιλία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φιλία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φιλία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5373”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • affection idem, page 16.
  • alliance idem, page 23.
  • attachment idem, page 49.
  • companionship idem, page 149.
  • fondness idem, page 333.
  • friendship idem, page 345.
  • intercourse idem, page 449.
  • love idem, page 502.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

φιλία • ‎(filía) f ‎(plural φιλίες)

1. friendship, companionship

Declension