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χθονοτρεφής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: chthonotrephēs

Principal Part: χθονοτρεφής χθονοτρεφές

Structure: χθονοτρεφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: τρέφω

Sense

  1. bred from earth

Examples

  • τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι, χθονοτρεφὲς ἐδανὸν ἢ ποτὸν πασαμένα ῥυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλὸς ὀρόμενον τόδ ἐπέθου θύος, δημοθρόους τ ἀράς· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. bred from earth

Similar forms

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

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