τροφεῖον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τροφή (trophḗ) + -εῖον (-eîon).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tro.pʰêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /troˈpʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /troˈɸi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /troˈfi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /troˈfi.on/
Noun
τροφεῖον • (tropheîon) n (genitive τροφείου); second declension
- synonym of οἰκίσκος (oikískos)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τροφεῖον tò tropheîon |
τὼ τροφείω tṑ tropheíō |
τᾰ̀ τροφεῖᾰ tằ tropheîă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τροφείου toû tropheíou |
τοῖν τροφείοιν toîn tropheíoin |
τῶν τροφείων tôn tropheíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τροφείῳ tōî tropheíōi |
τοῖν τροφείοιν toîn tropheíoin |
τοῖς τροφείοις toîs tropheíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τροφεῖον tò tropheîon |
τὼ τροφείω tṑ tropheíō |
τᾰ̀ τροφεῖᾰ tằ tropheîă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τροφεῖον tropheîon |
τροφείω tropheíō |
τροφεῖᾰ tropheîă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βρεφοτροφεῖον (brephotropheîon)
- θηριοτροφεῖον (thēriotropheîon)
- ἱπποτροφεῖον (hippotropheîon)
- ἰχθυοτροφεῖον (ikhthuotropheîon)
- κτηνοτροφεῖον (ktēnotropheîon)
- λαγωτροφεῖον (lagōtropheîon)
- μονομαχοτροφεῖον (monomakhotropheîon)
- νεοσσοτροφεῖον (neossotropheîon)
- νησσοτροφεῖον (nēssotropheîon)
- ὀρνιθοτροφεῖον (ornithotropheîon)
- ὀρτυγοτροφεῖον (ortugotropheîon)
- ὀρφανοτροφεῖον (orphanotropheîon)
- περδικοτροφεῖον (perdikotropheîon)
- περιστεροτροφεῖον (peristerotropheîon)
- πτωχοτροφεῖον (ptōkhotropheîon)
- σωματοτροφεῖον (sōmatotropheîon)
- χηνοτροφεῖον (khēnotropheîon)
- χοιροτροφεῖον (khoirotropheîon)
Further reading
- τροφεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τροφεῖον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “τροφεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τροφεῖον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn