Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τρόφιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρόφιμος τρόφιμον

Structure: τροφιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: trofh/

Sense

  1. nourishing
  2. the master of the house, the mistress
  3. nourished and reared up, a nursling, foster-child, our nurslings, pupils

Examples

  • "διαφέρει δὲ τῇ γεύσει καὶ τῷ τροφίμῳ ὁ πελάγιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1157)
  • εἰσ Βαήν τῆσ ἀγαθῆσ ἀγαθὸσ μὲν ἐγὼ κύκλοσ Ἀγαθονίκησ ἄνθετο δ’ ἀχράντῳ μάρτυρί με Τροφίμῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 182)

Synonyms

  1. nourishing

  2. the master of the house

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

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