φιλότης
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- friendship, love, affection
- (figuratively) friendship between states
- (Homeric) sexual love intercourse
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek φίλος (beloved, loving, love, friend, dear, friendly).
Origin
Ancient Greek
φίλος
Gloss
beloved, loving, love, friend, dear, friendly
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
友
Emoji
❤️ 🏩 👨❤️👨 👩❤️👨 👩❤️👩 👰♀️ 💋 💌 💑 💒 💓 💕 💖 💗 💘 💝 😍 😘 😚 😻 🤟 🤰 🤱 🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -philic English
- -philous English
- Philomela English
- malt English
- pamphlet English
- -phila Latin
- Philomela Latin
- Philoxenus Latin
- acidophilus Latin
- philomela Latin
- -filo Italian
- philanthrope French
- philogynie French
- -filo Spanish, Castilian
- Διόφιλος Ancient Greek
- Φίληβος Ancient Greek
- Φιλοκράτης Ancient Greek
- Φιλοκτήτης Ancient Greek
- Φιλόδημος Ancient Greek
- Φιλόλαος Ancient Greek
- Φιλόξενος Ancient Greek
- φίλος Ancient Greek
- φιλέω Ancient Greek
- φιλοψευδής Ancient Greek
- φιλόδοξος Ancient Greek
- φιλύρα Ancient Greek
- -filo Portuguese
- -fileach Irish
- -filo Galician
- -φιλος Greek (modern)
- φίλος Greek (modern)
- filsafat Indonesian
- filipsescu Aromanian
- *pʰílos Proto-Hellenic