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εὔτροφος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eutrophos

Principal Part: εὔτροφος εὔτροφον

Structure: εὐτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: τρέφω

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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