Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τετράτρυφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράτρυφος τετράτρυφον

Structure: τετρατρυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qru/ptw

Sense

  1. broken into four pieces

Examples

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴσ αἰζηὸσ ἕποιτο ἄρτον δειπνήσασ τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμον, ὃσ ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κ’ αὔλακ’ ἐλαύνοι, μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθ’ ὁμήλικασ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ θυμὸν ἔχων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:18)

Synonyms

  1. broken into four pieces

Similar forms

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

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