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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

  • ὥσπερ οἶμαι καὶ πυρὸν ἢν τὸν αὐτὸν ἐσ διαφόρουσ χώρασ ἐμβάλῃσ, ἄλλωσ μὲν ἐν τῇ πεδινῇ καὶ βαθείᾳ καὶ ποτιζομένῃ καὶ εὐηλίῳ καὶ εὐηνέμῳ καὶ ἐξειργασμένῃ ἀναφύσεται, εὐθαλὴσ οἶμαι καὶ εὔτροφοσ καὶ πολύχουσ καρπόσ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν ὄρει καὶ ὑπολίθῳ γηδίῳ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν δυσηλίῳ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν ὑπωρείᾳ, καὶ ὅλωσ διαφόρωσ καθ’ ἑκάστουσ τόπουσ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 27:5)
  • βάκχοσ εὔχυλοσ, πολύχυλοσ, εὔτροφοσ, τράγοσ οὐκ εὔχυλοσ, ἄπεπτοσ, βρωμώδησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 52 3:2)

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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