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πολύτροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτροφος πολύτροφον

Structure: πολυτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. well-fed

Examples

  • "Ἡρακλείδησ ὁ Ταραντῖνοσ ἐν Συμποσίῳ βολβὸσ καὶ κοχλίασ καὶ ᾠὸν καὶ τὰ ὅμοια δοκεῖ σπέρματοσ εἶναι ποιητικά, οὐ διὰ τὸ πολύτροφα εἶναι, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ ὁμοειδεῖσ ἔχειν τὰσ πρώτασ φύσεισ αὐτὰσ τὰσ δυνάμεισ τῷ σπέρματι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52179)
  • δεῖπνα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροφα καὶ μάλα πολλά, ἃ Ξενοκλῆσ ῥήτωρ ἐν Ἀθήναισ δείπνισεν ἡμᾶσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 3:2)
  • πολύτροφα δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ βρομώδη προσέτι τε εὐτελῆ κατὰ τὴν γεῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 1:2)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν στερεὰ καὶ πολύτροφα· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 18 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-fed

Related

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

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