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εὔτροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔτροφος εὔτροφον

Structure: εὐτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. well-nourished.

Examples

  • διδόναι καὶ ὄνου γάλα, λεῖον, ἄχολον, εὔτροφον, ἐσ τυρὸν ἀσύστατον, ἥπερ ἐστὶ γάλακτοσ ἀρετή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 249)
  • τῆσ δὲ πλησίον ὀρεινῆσ ἐχούσησ πολλὴν μὲν ἐλάτην εὔτροφον, οὐκ ὀλίγην δὲ κέδρον καὶ πεύκην, ἔτι δὲ τῆσ ἄλλησ ὕλησ ναυπηγησίμου πλῆθοσ ἄφθονον κατεσκεύασε ναῦσ ἱκανάσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 89 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-nourished

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

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