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θηροτρόφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηροτρόφος θηροτρόφον

Structure: θηροτροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. qhro/trofos

Sense

  1. feeding wild beasts

Examples

  • ἔτεκεσ, ὦ Γαῖ’, ἔτεκέσ ποτε, βάρβαρον ὡσ ἀκοὰν ἐδάην ἐδάην ποτ’ ἐν οἴκοισ, τὰν ἀπὸ θηροτρόφου φοινικολόφοιο δράκοντοσ γένναν ὀδοντοφυῆ, Θήβαισ κάλλιστον ὄνειδοσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. feeding wild beasts

Derived

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

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