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φιλοῦσι (philousi)

φιλοῦσι is an Ancient Greek form of φιλέω, meaning “love, like, kiss; be accustomed”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 203: φιλοῦσι γάρ μ’ Ἕλληνες Ἕκτορός τ’ ἄπο;

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 7.11.6: … Μακεδόνας ὅτι σὺ Περσῶν μέν τινας ἤδη πεποίησαι σαυτῷ συγγενεῖς καὶ καλοῦνται Πέρσαι συγγενεῖς Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ φιλοῦσί σε, Μακεδόνων δὲ οὔπω τις γέγευται ταύτης τῆς τιμῆς.

All forms of φιλέω (conjugation 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.