Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύτροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτροφος πολύτροφον

Structure: πολυτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. well-fed

Examples

  • ὀρφὸσ ἢ ὀρφὼσ εὔχυλοσ, πολύχυλοσ, γλίσχροσ, δύσφθαρτοσ, πολύτροφοσ, οὐρητικόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 51 4:2)
  • ἡ δὲ πηλαμὺσ πολύτροφοσ μέν ἐστι καὶ βαρεῖα, οὐρητικὴ δὲ καὶ δύσπεπτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 3:9)
  • "ὁ Φουνδανὸσ εὔτονοσ, πολύτροφοσ, κεφαλῆσ καὶ στομάχου ἅπτεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4827)
  • Δίφιλοσ δέ φησιν ὡσ ὁ τῆσ θρίδακοσ καυλὸσ πολύτροφὸσ ἐστι καὶ δυσέκκριτοσ μᾶλλον τῶν φύλλων ταῦτα δὲ πνευματικώτερὰ ἐστι καὶ τροφιμώτερα καὶ εὐεκκριτώτερα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 811)

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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