φιλία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

φῐλῐ́η (philíē) – Ionic

Etymology

From φῐλέω (philéō, “to love”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈli.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈli.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.a/

Noun

φῐλῐ́ᾱ • (philíā) f (genitive φῐλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

friendship, love, affection, fondness
- Xenophon, Symposium 8.15, (Compare Plato, Symposium 179C, Phaedrus 237C, 255E)
- Isocrates, Collected Works 9B
- Antidotus 130
- Plato, Symposium 185C
- Xenophon, Hiero 3.7
- Aristotle, Poetics 14.9
- Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.3, (Compare Isocrates, Collected Works 352B)
- 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 237C
- Lysias, Collected Works 214D
- Isocrates, Collected Works 424A
- Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1102
- Euripides, Alcestis 930
- Isocrates, Collected Works 302E
- Lysias, Collected Works 114.2
- Isocrates, Collected Works 118B
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.5, (Compare 6.34, 6.78)
- Plato, The Statesman 304E
- Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.10
- Plato, Laws 823B
- Isocrates, 88 D
- Isocrates, Collected Works 100C
- 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 182C
friendliness, kindliness, without any affection
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.7.13
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 4.6.5
sexual love, like ἔρως (érōs)
- Lxx, Proverbs 5.19
(with regard to things) fondness for
- Plato, The Republic 581A
- Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7.10
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

First declension of ἡ φῐλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς φῐλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῐλῐ́ᾱ hē philíā	τὼ φῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ philíā	αἱ φῐλῐ́αι hai philíai
Genitive	τῆς φῐλῐ́ᾱς tês philíās	τοῖν φῐλῐ́αιν toîn philíain	τῶν φῐλῐῶν tôn philiôn
Dative	τῇ φῐλῐ́ᾳ têi philíāi	τοῖν φῐλῐ́αιν toîn philíain	ταῖς φῐλῐ́αις taîs philíais
Accusative	τὴν φῐλῐ́ᾱν tḕn philíān	τὼ φῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ philíā	τᾱ̀ς φῐλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s philíās
Vocative	φῐλῐ́ᾱ philíā	φῐλῐ́ᾱ philíā	φῐλῐ́αι philíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 25.
- 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 φιλία (philía).

Noun

φιλία • (filía) f (plural φιλίες)

friendship, companionship

Declension

declension of φιλία

	singular	plural
nominative	φιλία •	φιλίες •
genitive	φιλίας •	φιλιών •
accusative	φιλία •	φιλίες •
vocative	φιλία •	φιλίες •

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