φίλημα

Ancient Greek

From φιλέω (philéō) +‎ -μα (-ma).

φῐ́λημᾰ • (phĭ́lēmă) n (genitive φῐλήμᾰτος); third declension

a kiss
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 135
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.12
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 679
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1238
- 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1154
- 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 416
- 450 BCE – 350 BCE, Plato Comicus, Collected Works 46
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 537
- 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 3.4
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Ep.Cor. 16.20
(in the plural) cosmetics
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 2.38

Third declension of τὸ φῐ́λημᾰ; τοῦ φῐλήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῐ́λημᾰ tò phĭ́lēmă	τὼ φῐλήμᾰτε tṑ phĭlḗmăte	τᾰ̀ φῐλήμᾰτᾰ tằ phĭlḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ φῐλήμᾰτος toû phĭlḗmătos	τοῖν φῐλημᾰ́τοιν toîn phĭlēmắtoin	τῶν φῐλημᾰ́των tôn phĭlēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ φῐλήμᾰτῐ tōî phĭlḗmătĭ	τοῖν φῐλημᾰ́τοιν toîn phĭlēmắtoin	τοῖς φῐλήμᾰσῐ / φῐλήμᾰσῐν toîs phĭlḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ φῐ́λημᾰ tò phĭ́lēmă	τὼ φῐλήμᾰτε tṑ phĭlḗmăte	τᾰ̀ φῐλήμᾰτᾰ tằ phĭlḗmătă
Vocative	φῐ́λημᾰ phĭ́lēmă	φῐλήμᾰτε phĭlḗmăte	φῐλήμᾰτᾰ phĭlḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“φίλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press