φιλονεικίαν (philoneikian)

φιλονεικίαν is an Ancient Greek form of φιλονεικία, meaning “love of contention, rivalry”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 3.2: μάλιστα γάρ ἂν οὕτως ἔν τε τῷ παρόντι παύσασθαι τὴν φιλονεικίαν, καὶ τὸν ἀποδειχθέντα πρὸς ἀμφοτέρους ἴσον γενέσθαι, τοὺς μὲν ὡς ἑλομένους ἀγαπῶντα, τοῖς δὲ εὔνουν ὄντα διὰ …

All forms of φιλονεικία (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.