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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

  • ἐνδεικνύμενοσ οὖν καὶ τὴν εὐταξίαν ὡσ ὑγιεινὸν ἐστι καὶ εὔχρηστον καὶ κοινὸν τὸν σοφώτατον Νέστορα πεποίηκε Μαχάονι τῷ ἰατρῷ τετρωμένῳ τὸν δεξιὸν ὦμον προσφέροντα οἶνον, ταῖσ φλεγμοναῖσ ἐναντιώτατον ὄντα, καὶ τοῦτον Πράμνειον, ὃν ἴδμεν παχὺν καὶ πολύτροφον οὐ διψήσεωσ ἄκοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐμφορήσεωσ ἕνεκα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 172)
  • χρηστέον, ἀλλ’ ὡσ σιτίῳ δύναμιν ἐμβριθῆ καὶ πολύτροφον ἔχοντι. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 1:1)

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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