φιλέω
Etym. φίλος
I. "to love, regard with affection", Lat. diligere, Hom., etc.; φ. τινὰ φιλότητα "to feel affection" for him, Od.; "to love and cherish" as one's wife, Hom.:—the epic aor1 mid. in act. sense, Il.
2. "to treat affectionately or kindly, to welcome" a guest, Hom.:—Pass., παρ᾽ ἄμμι φιλήσεαι "welcome shalt thou be" in our house, Od.
3. "to kiss", Aesch., etc.; c. dupl. acc., τὸ φίλαμα, τὸ τὸν Ἄδωνιν φίλασεν the kiss wherewith "she kissed" him, Mosch.:—Mid. "to kiss one another", Hdt.
4. of things, "to love, like, approve", Od., Soph.
II. c. inf. "to love" to do, "be fond" of doing, and so "to be wont or used" to do, Hdt., Trag.
2. of things, events, αὔρα φιλέει πνέειν Hdt.; φιλεῖ μέγαλα στρατόπεδα ἐκπλήγνυσθαι great armies "are apt" to be seized with panic, Thuc.; πάντα ἀνθρώποισι φιλέει γίγνεσθαι everything comes to man by experience, Hdt.; and without γίγνεσθαι, οἷα δὴ φιλεῖ as "is wont", Plat.; also impers., ὡς δὴ φιλεῖ as "it is usual", Lat. ut solet, Plut.