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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

  • τροφίμουσ δ’ αὐτὰσ εἶναί φησιν ὁ Ἱκέσιοσ οὐχ ἧττον τῶν ἐγχέλεων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν γόγγρων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 903)
  • ταὐτὸν δὴ καὶ τοὺσ ἡμετέρουσ τροφίμουσ δεῖ διανοουμένουσ τὰ μὲν εἰρημένα ἀποχρώντωσ νομίζειν εἰρῆσθαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ τὸν δαίμονά τε καὶ θεὸν αὐτοῖσιν ὑποθήσεσθαι θυσιῶν τε πέρι καὶ χορειῶν, οἷστισί τε καὶ ὁπότε ἕκαστα ἑκάστοισ προσπαίζοντέσ τε καὶ ἱλεούμενοι κατὰ τὸν τρόπον τῆσ φύσεωσ διαβιώσονται, θαύματα ὄντεσ τὸ πολύ, σμικρὰ δὲ ἀληθείασ ἄττα μετέχοντεσ. (Plato, Laws, book 7 99:2)

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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