ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΩΤΕΡΟΝ, φιλοπονωτερον
PHILOPONŌTERON, philoponōteron
Sounds Like: fee-loh-poh-noh-TEH-ron
Translations: more laborious, more industrious, more diligent, more painstaking, a more laborious thing, more industriously, more diligently
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word is the comparative form of 'philoponos', meaning 'fond of labor' or 'industrious'. As an adjective, it describes something or someone as being 'more laborious' or 'more diligent'. As an adverb, it describes an action as being performed 'more industriously' or 'more diligently'. It is used to indicate a greater degree of effort, hard work, or diligence.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative (Adjective); Comparative (Adverb)
Strong’s number: G5385 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 12 — 2:84
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΟΝ — industrious, laborious, diligent, hard-working
- ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΟΥΣ — labor-loving, industrious, diligent, laborious, hard-working
- ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΩΣ — diligently, laboriously, industriously, assiduously
- ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΩΤΑΤΗ — most diligent, most laborious, most fond of toil, a most diligent, a most laborious, a most fond of toil
- ΦΙΛΟΠΟΝΩΤΑΤΟΣ — most industrious, most diligent, most hard-working, most laborious, most painstaking
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