# φιλία
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* φῐλῐ́η (philíē) — Ionic

### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

φῐλῐ́ᾱ • (philíā) f (genitive φῐλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
* 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
* 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
* sexual love, like ἔρως (érōs)
** Lxx, Proverbs 5.19
* (with regard to things) fondness for
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 581A
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7.10
* 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

##### Synonyms

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

##### Antonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* Φῐλῐᾰ́δης (Philiádēs)

##### Descendants

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

#### Further reading

* “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.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

φῐλίᾱ • (philíā)
* inflection of φίλιος (phílios):
** feminine nominative/vocative singular
** feminine nominative/vocative/accusative dual

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).

### Noun

φιλία • (filía) f (plural φιλίες)
* friendship, companionship

#### Declension

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

### Further reading

* φιλία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$