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διατροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διατροφή

Structure: διατροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: diatre/fw

Sense

  1. sustenance, support

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative διατροφή διατροφᾱ́ διατροφαί
Genitive διατροφῆς διατροφαῖν διατροφῶν
Dative διατροφῇ διατροφαῖν διατροφαῖς
Accusative διατροφήν διατροφᾱ́ διατροφᾱ́ς
Vocative διατροφή διατροφᾱ́ διατροφαί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καίτοι γυναῖκα εἶχεν οὐ μισοῦσαν ἀργύριον καὶ παῖδασ δεομένουσ διατροφῆσ καὶ τῶν νέων λέγεται τοῖσ πλουσιωτάτοισ συνεῖναι, ὧν φασιν ἐνίουσ μηδενὸσ ἁπλῶσ φείδεσθαι πρὸσ αὐτόν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:3)
  • σημεῖα δὲ πολλὰ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν διαμένειν τῆσ γενέσεωσ καὶ διατροφῆσ τοῦ θεοῦ τούτου κατὰ τὴν νῆσον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 70 3:2)
  • οὐ τοσαύτη γὰρ ἂν ἐκ τῆσ ἐπ’ ἀκριβὲσ αὐτῶν συλλογῆσ εὐπορία τοῖσ δεσπόταισ γένοιτο, ὅση χάρισ ἐκ τῶν δεομένων ἔλθοι, τό τε θεῖον τὴν γῆν προθυμοτέραν εἰσ τὴν ἐκτροφὴν τῶν καρπῶν ἀπεργάσεται μὴ τοῦ κατ’ αὐτοὺσ προνοουμένων λυσιτελοῦσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆσ τῶν ἄλλων διατροφῆσ λόγον ἐχόντων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 300:1)

Synonyms

  1. sustenance

Similar forms

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

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