φίλαν (philan)

φίλαν is an Ancient Greek form of φίλος, meaning “dear, beloved; friend”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Φίλα, “Phila — a frontier fortress of Macedonia towards Magnesia, and distant 5 M. P. from Heracleia, which…”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.109: κνυζεῦνται φωνεῦντα φίλαν ποτὶ ματέρα τέκνα·

Plutarch, Demetrius 14.3: … ιν γαμητέον, ὁμοιόπτωτόν τι τῷ δουλευτέον εὐθυρρημονήσας. τοιαύτη μὲν οὖν τις ἦν ἡ τοῦ Δημητρίου τιμὴ πρός τε Φίλαν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας γαμετὰς ὥστε πολλαῖς μὲν ἀνέδην ἑταίραις, πολλαῖς δὲ ἐλευθέραις συνεῖναι γυναιξί, καὶ μάλιστα δ …

Polybius, Histories 2.57.8: καὶ τοῦτʼ εἰκότως ἐποίουν· οὐ γὰρ οἶδʼ εἴ τινες ἀνθρώπων εὐγνωμονεστέροις ἐνέτυχον πολεμίοις οὐδʼ εἴ τινες ἀβλαβέστερον ἐπάλαισαν τοῖς μεγίστοις δοκοῦσιν εἶναι συμπτώμασι Μαντινέων διὰ τὴν Ἀράτου καὶ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν εἰς αὐτοὺς φιλαν

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.