τρόφιμος

From τρέφω (tréphō) +‎ -ιμος (-imos).

τρόφῐμος • (tróphĭmos) m or f (neuter τρόφῐμον); second declension or
τρόφῐμος • (tróphĭmos) m (feminine τροφίμη, neuter τρόφῐμον); first/second declension

1. nourishing [with genitive]
2. (nominalized, masculine) the master of the house
3. (nominalized, feminine) mistress
4. nourished and reared up
5. (nominalized, masculine or feminine) nursling, foster child, pupil

As a two-ending adjective:

As a three-ending adjective:

• τρόφιμος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “τρόφιμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τρόφιμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τρόφιμος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • foster-child idem, page 340.
  • nourishing idem, page 562.
  • nursling idem, page 563.
  • nurturing idem, page 563.
  • nutritious idem, page 563.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τρόφῐμος (tróphĭmos, “inmate”). By surface analysis, τρέφω (tréfo) +‎ -ιμος (-imos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾo.fi.mos/
• Hyphenation: τρό‧φι‧μος

τρόφιμος • (trófimos) m or f (plural τρόφιμοι)

1. inmate (of prison or other institution)
2. boarder, paying guest (of boarding house etc)
3. boarder (in school)
4. regular (ironic)

• τρόφιμο n (trófimo, “food”)

• and see: τρέφω (tréfo, “I feed”)