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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

  • προπαρατίθεσθαι δ’ ἐστὶν ὠφέλιμον τὴν λεγομένην φυλλίδα καὶ τευτλίον, ἔτι δὲ τάριχοσ, εἰσ τὰσ ὁρμὰσ εἰσ ταῦτα μὴ ὁμοίωσ τῶν πολυτρόφων ἀπολαύειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 91 2:1)

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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