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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

  • ‐ παῖσ πατέρα καίνει καὶ λαβὼν ὀχήματα Πολύβῳ τροφεῖ δίδωσιν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 3:8)
  • ἔνθα Καβάρνουσ θῆκεν ἀγακλέασ ὀργειῶνασ παῖσ πατέρα καίνει καὶ λαβὼν ὀχήματα ͅ Πολύβῳ τροφεῖ δίδωσιν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other16)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ ἔτι ἀποδώσομεν τῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ ἃ τὸ πρότερον εἴπομεν, ὅτι ἀνάγκη καὶ εἶναι καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον γίγνεσθαι αὐτῷ ἢ πρότερον διὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν φθονερῷ, ἀπίστῳ, ἀδίκῳ, ἀφίλῳ, ἀνοσίῳ καὶ πάσησ κακίασ πανδοκεῖ τε καὶ τροφεῖ, καὶ ἐξ ἁπάντων τούτων μάλιστα μὲν αὐτῷ δυστυχεῖ εἶναι, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ τοὺσ πλησίον αὑτῷ τοιούτουσ ἀπεργάζεσθαι. (Plato, Republic, book 9 211:1)
  • τρίτῃ φθίνοντοσ ἐδόκουν ἐφθαρμένησ μοι τῆσ τροφῆσ συμβουλεύεσθαι περὶ λουτροῦ Ζωσίμῳ τῷ τροφεῖ καὶ ἐρωτᾶν εἰ δέοι πλείω λούσασθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:3)
  • τέλοσ δὲ ὁ σωτὴρ σημαίνει τῆσ αὐτῆσ νυκτὸσ ταυτὸν ἐμοί τε καὶ τῷ τροφεῖ, περιῆν γὰρ δὴ τότε ὁ Ζώσιμοσ, ὥστε ἐγὼ μὲν ἔπεμπον ἐκείνῳ φράσων ἃ εἰρηκὼσ εἰή ὁ θεὸσ, ὁ δ’ ἀπήντα φράσων αὐτόσ μοι ἃ ἀκηκόει τοῦ θεοῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:7)

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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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