φιλία

• φῐλῐ́η (philíē) — Ionic

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

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

1. friendship, love, affection, fondness
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 8.15, (Compare Plato, Symposium 179C, Phaedrus 237C, 255E)
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 9B
   • Antidotus 130
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 185C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 3.7
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 14.9
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.6.3, (Compare Isocrates, Collected Works 352B)
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 306, (Compare Andocides, Collected Works 27.10)
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.130
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.29
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 253
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.28
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.8
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 237C
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 214D
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 424A
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1102
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 930
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 302E
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 114.2
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 118B
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.5, (Compare 6.34, 6.78)
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 304E
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.10
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 823B
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, 88 D
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 100C
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.91
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 600.1102
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.29
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 138
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.82
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 182C
2. friendliness, kindliness, without any affection
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.7.13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 4.6.5
3. sexual love, like ἔρως (érōs)
   • Lxx, Proverbs 5.19
4. (with regard to things) fondness for
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 581A
   • 350 BCE, 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
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 8.1.3
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1.4.2

• (friendship, love, affection, fondness): φῐλότης (philótēs), φεῖλος (pheîlos), φῖλος (phîlos)

• (antonym(s) of “friendship”): ἔχθρα (ékhthra), μῖσος (mîsos)

• Φῐλῐᾰ́δης (Philiádēs)

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

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

φῐλίᾱ • (philíā)

1. inflection of φίλιος (phílios):
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. feminine nominative/vocative/accusative dual

From Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).

φιλία • (filía) f (plural φιλίες)

1. friendship, companionship

• φιλία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el