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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τροφεύς τροφή τροφής
Genitive τροφέως τροφέοιν τροφέων
Dative τροφεί τροφέοιν τροφεῦσιν*
Accusative τροφέα τροφή τροφέᾱς
Vocative τροφεύ τροφή τροφής

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

  • ἦν δέ τισ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμέρων καὶ συντρόφων ζῴων ἐπικλῶσα γλυκυθυμία, μετ’ ὠρυγῆσ καὶ πόθου συμπαραθεόντων ἐμβαίνουσι τοῖσ ἑαυτῶν τροφεῦσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 5:3)
  • χάριν γὰρ τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων μηλοφόνοισιν <ἐν> ἄταισ δαῖτ’ ἀκέλευστοσ ἔτευξεν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 2 1:2)
  • ταὐτὸν δή μοι τοῦθ’ ἡ βασιλικὴ φαίνεται πᾶσι τοῖσ κατὰ νόμον παιδευταῖσ καὶ τροφεῦσιν, τὴν τῆσ ἐπιστατικῆσ αὐτὴ δύναμιν ἔχουσα, οὐκ ἐπιτρέψειν ἀσκεῖν ὅτι μή τισ πρὸσ τὴν αὑτῆσ σύγκρασιν ἀπεργαζόμενοσ ἦθόσ τι πρέπον ἀποτελεῖ, ταῦτα δὲ μόνα παρακελεύεσθαι παιδεύειν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 310:3)
  • θεοὺσ δ’ ὠμόσατε, ὅτε ἡμῖν ἔναγχοσ διὰ Γαϊού Καίσαροσ συνετίθεσθε καὶ σπονδὰσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὁρ́κοισ ἐσπένδετε καὶ δεξιὰσ ἐτίθεσθε, αἳ καὶ παρὰ πολεμίοισ ἰσχύουσιν, οὐ παρὰ φίλοισ καὶ τροφεῦσιν; (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 4:3)

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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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