στοργή

From στέργω (stérgō, “to love”) +‎ -η (-ē).

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

1. love, affection; especially of parents and children
   • 490 BCE – 430 BCE, Empedocles, Collected Works 109.3
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Fragments 73
   • 362 BCE – 262 BCE, Philemon, Collected Works 200
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1100D
   • Manetho 4.378
   1. (rarely) sexual love
      • Palatine Anthology, 5 166
      • Palatine Anthology, 5 191
      • Palatine Anthology, 7 476

• φιλόστοργος (philóstorgos)

• Greek: στοργή (storgí)

• “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

Inherited from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ).

• IPA^(key): /storˈʝi/
• Rhymes: -i

στοργή • (storgí) f (uncountable)

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