ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΤΕΡΟΝ, φιλοτιμοτερον
PHILOTIMOTERON, philotimoteron
Sounds Like: fee-loh-TI-moh-teh-ron
Translations: more ambitious, more honor-loving, more eager for honor, more zealous, more generous
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the comparative form of the adjective 'φιλότιμος' (philótimos), meaning 'ambitious' or 'honor-loving'. As a comparative adjective, it indicates a greater degree of this quality, meaning 'more ambitious' or 'more honor-loving'. It can be used to describe someone who is more eager to gain honor, recognition, or who is more zealous or generous than another. It would be used in a sentence to compare two entities, for example, 'He is more ambitious than his brother'.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative; or Singular, Masculine or Feminine, Accusative
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 22:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΣ — unambitious, without love of honor, inglorious, unaspiring
- ΤΟΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΝ — ambition, a love of honor, a desire for honor, a zeal, a rivalry, a contention
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΙ — ambitious, honorable, zealous, eager, diligent, a person of honor, a person of ambition
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΝ — ambitious, honor-loving, zealous, a zealous person, a person who loves honor, a person who is ambitious
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΤΑΤΑ — most honorably, most ambitiously, most generously, most zealously, most eagerly
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΤΑΤΟΣ — most honor-loving, most ambitious, most generous, most honorable, most zealous
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΥ — ambitious, honorable, zealous, diligent, generous, liberal, of ambition, of honor, of zeal, of diligence, of generosity, of liberality
- ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΩΣ — ambitiously, honorably, zealously, eagerly, with a desire for honor, with great effort
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