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θρεπτήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θρεπτήριος θρεπτήριον

Structure: θρεπτηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/fw

Sense

  1. able to feed or rear, feeding, nourishing
  2. let grow as an offering
  3. rewards for rearing, the returns made by children for their rearing
  4. nourishment

Examples

  • πλόκαμον Ἰνάχῳ θρεπτήριον. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:9)
  • εἰ γὰρ τὸν αὐτὸν χῶρον ἐκλιπὼν ἐμοὶ οὕφισ ἐμοῖσι σπαργάνοισ ὡπλίζετο, καὶ μαστὸν ἀμφέχασκ’ ἐμὸν θρεπτήριον, θρόμβῳ δ’ ἔμειξεν αἵματοσ φίλον γάλα, ἡ δ’ ἀμφὶ τάρβει τῷδ’ ἐπῴμωξεν πάθει, δεῖ τοί νιν, ὡσ ἔθρεψεν ἔκπαγλον τέρασ, θανεῖν βιαίωσ· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. able to feed or rear

  2. nourishment

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

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