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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + τροφή (trophḗ) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tro.pʰí.aː/ → /a.troˈɸi.a/ → /a.troˈfi.a/
Noun
ἀτροφίᾱ • (atrophíā) f (genitive ἀτροφίᾱς); first declension
- lack of food or nourishment
- atrophy
- starvation diet
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀτροφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀτροφία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀτροφία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀτροφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press