τροφός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρέφω (tréphō, “to nourish”) +‎ -ός (-ós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tro.pʰós/ → /troˈɸos/ → /troˈfos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tro.pʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /troˈpʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /troˈɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /troˈfos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /troˈfos/

Noun

τροφός • (trophós) f (genitive τροφοῦ); second declension

1. nurse (person who takes care of other people's young)
2. wet nurse

Declension

Second declension of ἡ τροφός; τῆς τροφοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τροφός hē trophós	τὼ τροφώ tṑ trophṓ	αἱ τροφοί hai trophoí
Genitive	τῆς τροφοῦ tês trophoû	τοῖν τροφοῖν toîn trophoîn	τῶν τροφῶν tôn trophôn
Dative	τῇ τροφῷ tēî trophōî	τοῖν τροφοῖν toîn trophoîn	ταῖς τροφοῖς taîs trophoîs
Accusative	τὴν τροφόν tḕn trophón	τὼ τροφώ tṑ trophṓ	τᾱ̀ς τροφούς tā̀s trophoús
Vocative	τροφέ trophé	τροφώ trophṓ	τροφοί trophoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal 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.
  • foster-mother idem, page 340.
  • nurse idem, page 563.