Ancient Greek

Noun

στοργή • ‎(storgḗ) f ‎(genitive στοργῆς); first declension

1. love, affection; especially of parents and children
   • Empedocles, Collected Works 109.3
   • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Fragments 73
   • Philemon, Collected Works 200
   • Plutarch, Moralia 2.1100.D
   • Manetho 4.378
   1. (rarely) sexual love
      • Palatine Anthology, 5 166
      • Palatine Anthology, 5 191
      • Palatine Anthology, 7 476

Inflection

See also

• φιλόστοργος ‎(philóstorgos)

References

• στοργή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στοργή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ί

Noun

στοργή • ‎(storgí) f ‎(uncountable)

1. deep love and affection, as of a mother for her child.

Declension