φίλαι (philai)

φίλαι is an Ancient Greek form of φίλος, meaning “dear, beloved; friend”. It is the vocative plural feminine adjective.

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.657: Ὦ φίλαι φιλαι , εἰ δʼ ἄγε δὴ μενοεικέα δῶρα πόρωμεν

Strabo, Geography 1.2.32·2: … οἱ τότε ὅροι, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ νῦν πλησίον εἰσίν, οἱ κατὰ Συήνην καὶ τὰς Φίλας· ὧν ἡ μὲν τῆς Αἰγύπτου ἐστίν, αἱ δὲ Φίλαι κοινὴ κατοικία τῶν Αἰθιόπων καὶ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων. ὁ οὖν εἰς Θήβας ἀφιγμένος εἰ καὶ μέχρι τῶν ὅρων ἀφῖκτο ἢ καὶ π …

All forms of φίλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.