endearing
From LSJ
ἀεὶ δ' ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν → always try to please your masters, always be obsequious to the masters
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
V. φίλος (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1222).
call by endearing names: Ar. and V. ὑποκορίζεσθαι (acc.).