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

  • σιτέονται δὲ τὰ ὡραῖα καὶ τὸν φλοιὸν τῶν δενδρέων, γλυκύν τε ἐόντα τὸν φλοιὸν καὶ τρόφιμον οὐ μεῖον ἤπερ αἱ βάλανοι τῶν φοινίκων. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 11 8:1)
  • ὅτι δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ ὁμολογουμένωσ ἐστὶ τρόφιμον δῆλον ἐκ τοῦ τρέφεσθαί τινα ἐξ αὐτοῦ μόνου τῶν ζῴων, ὥσπερ τοὺσ τέττιγασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 261)
  • "ἐπιτήδειόν τε εἶναί φησιν αὐτὴν τοῖσ τῶν νεφρῶν καὶ τῆσ κύστεωσ ἐρεθισμοῖσ εὐέκκριτόν τε εἶναι μετρίωσ καὶ τρόφιμον, κρείττω δὲ τὴν ἀγρίαν τῆσ κηπευομένησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5213)
  • "κεφαλὴ καὶ πόδεσ ὑὸσ οὐ πολὺ τὸ τρόφιμον καὶ λιπαρὸν ἐν ἑαυτοῖσ ἔχουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 504)
  • σκορπίον ἢ πέρκαισι καθηγητὴν μελάνουρον Ἱκέσιοσ δ’ αὐτὸν σαργῷ φησιν παραπλήσιον εἶναι, καταδεέστερον δὲ τῇ εὐχυλίᾳ καὶ τῇ εὐστομίᾳ, μικρῶσ δὲ παραστύφειν καὶ εἶναι τρόφιμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 93 1:1)

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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