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εὐτροφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐτροφία

Structure: εὐτροφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. good nurture, thriving condition

Declension

First declension

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ταὐτὸν εἶναι δύναμίν τε καὶ ἰσχύν, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν καὶ ἀπὸ ἐπιστήμησ γίγνεσθαι, τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ ἀπὸ μανίασ γε καὶ θυμοῦ, ἰσχὺν δὲ ἀπὸ φύσεωσ καὶ εὐτροφίασ τῶν σωμάτων. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 342:1)
  • ἀπὸ θυμοῦ γε καὶ ἀπὸ μανίασ, ὥσπερ ἡ δύναμισ, ἀνδρεία δὲ ἀπὸ φύσεωσ καὶ εὐτροφίασ τῶν ψυχῶν γίγνεται. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 343:1)

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

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