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ἄτροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτροφος ἄτροφη ἄτροφον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + τροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. not fed, ill-fed

Examples

  • τοῦτο ἐλαφρὸν τ’ ἐστὶ καὶ ἄτροφον, καὶ μᾶλλον αὐτοῦ ἔτι ἡ ἐπανθρακὶσ καλουμένη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 74 5:11)
  • "οὐ γὰρ ἀπεικὸσ ἐστι πάλαι μὲν ἄτροφον καὶ ὑδατῶδεσ εἶναι, γεννώμενον ἐκ φυτάδοσ νέασ, ὕστερον δὲ πεπτόμενον ἐν τελείοισ καὶ συνιστάμενον ἀπὸ πλήθουσ ἴσου μᾶλον ἰσχύειν καὶ τρέφειν· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 4 3:5)
  • ἢ ὅτι, καθάπερ τὸ πῦρ χωρὶσ ὑγρότητοσ ἄτροφόν ἐστι καὶ ξηρὸν τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἄνευ θερμότητοσ ἄγονον καὶ ἀργόν, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἄρρεν ἀδρανὲσ καὶ τὸ θῆλυ χωρὶσ ἀλλήλων, ἡ δὲ σύνοδοσ ἀμφοῖν ἐπιτελεῖ τοῖσ γήμασι τὴν συμβίωσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 1 1:3)
  • ὅτι, καθάπερ τὸ πῦρ χωρὶσ ὑγρότητοσ ἄτροφόν ἐστι καὶ ξηρὸν τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἄνευ θερμότητοσ ἄγονον καὶ ἀργόν, οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἄρρεν ἀδρανὲσ καὶ τὸ θῆλυ χωρὶσ ἀλλήλων ἡ δὲ σύνοδοσ ἀμφοῖν ἐπιτελεῖ τοῖσ γήμασι τὴν συμβίωσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 1 2:2)
  • τότε τὸ ἔμβρυον ἄτροφον εἶναι ἐὰν δὲ μείνῃ τοὺσ ἐννέα μῆνασ ἐν τῇ μήτρᾳ, προκῦψαν τότε ὁλόκληρόν ἐστι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. not fed

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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