φιλονικία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φιλο- (philo-) +‎ νῑ́κη (nī́kē) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.lo.niː.kí.aː/ → /ɸi.lo.niˈci.a/ → /fi.lo.niˈci.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lo.niː.kí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lo.niˈki.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸi.lo.niˈci.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fi.lo.niˈci.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.lo.niˈci.a/

Noun

φῐλονῑκίᾱ • (philonīkíā) f (genitive φῐλονῑκίᾱς); first declension

1. love of strife, eager rivalry, contentiousness, partisan spirit
2. emulation, eagerness

Declension

First declension of ἡ φῐλονῑκίᾱ; τῆς φῐλονῑκίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ φῐλονῑκίᾱ hē philonīkíā
Genitive	τῆς φῐλονῑκίᾱς tês philonīkíās
Dative	τῇ φῐλονῑκίᾳ têi philonīkíāi
Accusative	τὴν φῐλονῑκίᾱν tḕn philonīkíān
Vocative	φῐλονῑκίᾱ philonīkíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φιλονικία (filonikía)
  • → Romanian: filonichie

Further reading

• φιλονικία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φιλονικία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press