φιλία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φιλίη (Ionic)

Etymology

From φιλέω (phileō, “love”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /pʰilí.a͜a/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /pʰilíaː/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /ɸilía/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /filía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /filía/

Noun

φῐλίᾱ (genitive φιλίας) f, first declension; (philia)

1. friendship, love, affection, fondness
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Symposium, 8.15, (Compare Plato, Symposium, 179.C, Phaedrus, 237.C, 255.E)
   • Isocrates, 9.B
   • Antidotus, 130
   • 385-380 BC, Plato, Symposium, 185.C
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Hiero, 3.7
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Poetics, 14.9
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.6.3, (Compare Isocrates, 352.B)
   • Theognis of Megara, 306, (Compare Andocides, 27.10)
   • 460-420 BC, Herodotus, Histories, 7.130
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.6.29
   • 428 BC, Euripides, Hippolytus, 253
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.1.28
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.2.8
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato, Phaedrus, 237.C
   • Lysias, 214.D
   • Isocrates, 424.A
   • Theognis of Megara, 1102
   • 438 BC, Euripides, Alcestis, 930
   • Isocrates, 302.E
   • Lysias, 114.2
   • Isocrates, 118.B
   • 5th century BC, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 5.5, (Compare 6.34, 6.78)
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato, The Statesman, 304.E
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.2.10
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Plato, Laws, 823.B
   • Isocrates, 88, D
   • Isocrates, 100.C
   • 5th century BC, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 1.91
   • Theognis of Megara, 600.1102
   • 5th, 4th century BC, Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.7.29
   • 408 BC, Euripides, Orestes, 138
   • 460-420 BC, Herodotus, Histories, 3.82
   • 385-380 BC, Plato, Symposium, 182.C
2. friendliness, kindliness, without any affection
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 2.7,13
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 4.6,5
3. sexual love, like ἔρως
   • Lxx, Proverbs, 5.19
4. (with regard to things) fondness for
   • circa 380 BC, Plato, The Republic, 581.A
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, On the Heavens, 3.7,10
5. regarded as the natural force which unites discordant elements and movements, as νεῖκος keeps them apart
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Physics, 8.1,3
   • 4th century BC, Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1.4,2

Inflection

First declension of φιλίᾱ, φιλίᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	φιλίᾱ	φιλίᾱ	φιλίαι
Genitive	φιλίᾱς	φιλίαιν	φιλιῶν
Dative	φιλίᾳ	φιλίαιν	φιλίαις
Accusative	φιλίᾱν	φιλίᾱ	φιλίᾱς
Vocative	φιλίᾱ	φιλίᾱ	φιλίαι

Antonyms

• (friendship): ἔχθρα, μῖσος

Descendants

English: -philia English: bibliophilia English: logophilia

English: macrophilia English: nyctophilia English: pedophilia

References

• LSJ
• BDAG
• Strong’s concordance number: G5373

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Greek

Noun

φιλία (filia) f,   plural φιλίες

1. friendship, companionship

Declension

declension of φιλία

	singular (ενικός)	plural (πληθυντικός)
nominative (ονομαστική)	φιλία	φιλίες
genitive (γενική)	φιλίας	φιλιών
accusative (αιτιατική)	φιλία	φιλίες
vocative (κλητική)	φιλία	φιλίες