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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τρέφω (tréphō, “to nourish”) + -ός (-ós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tro.pʰós/ → /troˈɸos/ → /troˈfos/
Noun
τροφός • (trophós) f (genitive τροφοῦ); second declension
- nurse (person who takes care of other people's young)
- wet nurse
Declension
Further reading
- “τροφός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τροφός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τροφός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τροφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τροφός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.