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τροφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τροφεύς τροφέως

Structure: τροφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: trofh/

Sense

  1. one who rears or brings up, a foster-father, a nurse, ye who reared, one who fosters

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πεπαιδευμέναι δέ, ὅσαι φθεγξαμένου τοῦ κυναγωγοῦ ὑποκατακλίνονται, μὴ ὑπὸ δέουσ, ἀλλὰ φιλοφρονούμεναι τὸν τροφέα καὶ τιμῶσαι, καθάπερ οἱ προσκυνοῦντεσ μέγαν βασιλέα. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 7 6:1)
  • Λυδὸσ ἐγώ, ναὶ Λυδόσ, ἐλευθερίῳ δέ με τύμβῳ, δέσποτα, Τιμάνθη τὸν σὸν ἔθευ τροφέα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1781)
  • φασὶ δὲ καὶ παιδαγωγὸν καὶ τροφέα συνέπεσθαι κατὰ τὰσ στρατείασ αὐτῷ Σειληνόν, εἰσηγητὴν καὶ διδάσκαλον γινόμενον τῶν καλλίστων ἐπιτηδευμάτων, καὶ μεγάλα συμβάλλεσθαι τῷ Διονύσῳ πρὸσ ἀρετήν τε καὶ δόξαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 4 3:3)
  • ὑπὸ τούτῳ δὲ τῷ λόφῳ πόλισ τε ἦν Ἀκακήσιον Ἑρμοῦ τε Ἀκακησίου λίθου πεποιημένον ἄγαλμα καὶ ἐσ ἡμᾶσ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τοῦ λόφου, τραφῆναι δὲ Ἑρμῆν παῖδα αὐτόθι καὶ Ἄκακον τὸν Λυκάονοσ γενέσθαι οἱ τροφέα Ἀρκάδων ἐστὶν ἐσ αὐτὸν λόγοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 15:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τραφεὶσ ὑπ’ ἐκείνῳ καὶ παιδευθεὶσ καὶ ὅσων ἡ τύχη παρέσχε μετὰ ταῦτα κοινωνήσασ πάντων διὰ σπουδῆσ, τροφέα, διδάσκαλον, πατέρα, ἑταῖρον, πάντ’ εἶχον καλεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:5)

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

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