"philautia" meaning in English

See philautia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fɪˈlɔː.ti.ə/
Etymology: Loan from Greek φίλαυτοι, nominative of φίλαυτος, a compound of phil- + auto- Etymology templates: {{compound|en|phil-|auto-}} phil- + auto- Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} philautia (uncountable)
  1. (rare, archaic or historical) Self-love, self-conceit Tags: archaic, historical, rare, uncountable Related terms: φίλαυτος on the Greek Wiktionary
    Sense id: en-philautia-en-noun-aLWqCL0N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phil-",
        "3": "auto-"
      },
      "expansion": "phil- + auto-",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Loan from Greek φίλαυτοι, nominative of φίλαυτος, a compound of phil- + auto-",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "philautia (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Lee Palmer Wandel, Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich, page 65:",
          "text": "Zwingli distinguished the origin of human sin with its Greek name, philautia. Philautia promotes the self over all others, both brother and father, neighbor and God. It is the wish for \"things to be better for us than for others.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Oliver O'Donovan, The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine:",
          "text": "There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way. In Plato's Laws we first encounter the saying, apparently traditional, that \"every man is naturally his own friend.\" This idea was to provide Aristotle with a developed theory of friendship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-love, self-conceit"
      ],
      "id": "en-philautia-en-noun-aLWqCL0N",
      "links": [
        [
          "Self-love",
          "self-love"
        ],
        [
          "conceit",
          "conceit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, archaic or historical) Self-love, self-conceit"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "φίλαυτος on the Greek Wiktionary"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɪˈlɔː.ti.ə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "philautia"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phil-",
        "3": "auto-"
      },
      "expansion": "phil- + auto-",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Loan from Greek φίλαυτοι, nominative of φίλαυτος, a compound of phil- + auto-",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "philautia (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "φίλαυτος on the Greek Wiktionary"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Lee Palmer Wandel, Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich, page 65:",
          "text": "Zwingli distinguished the origin of human sin with its Greek name, philautia. Philautia promotes the self over all others, both brother and father, neighbor and God. It is the wish for \"things to be better for us than for others.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Oliver O'Donovan, The Problem of Self-Love in St. Augustine:",
          "text": "There was, however, an inclination in pre-Christian Greek philosophy to speak of philautia in a different way. In Plato's Laws we first encounter the saying, apparently traditional, that \"every man is naturally his own friend.\" This idea was to provide Aristotle with a developed theory of friendship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Self-love, self-conceit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Self-love",
          "self-love"
        ],
        [
          "conceit",
          "conceit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, archaic or historical) Self-love, self-conceit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɪˈlɔː.ti.ə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "philautia"
}

Download raw JSONL data for philautia meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (db0bec0 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.