Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• τράφω ‎(tráphō) (Doric)

Verb

τρέφω • ‎(tréphō) future: θρέψω aorist: ἔθρεψα, ἔτραφον perfect active: τέτροφα, τέτραφα perfect mediopassive: τέθραμμαι aorist passive: ἐθρέφθην, ἐτράφην

1. to thicken, congeal, curdle
2. to make to grow, to increase, bring up, breed, rear (especially of children)
   1. (of slaves, cattle, etc.) to rear and keep
   2. to tend, cherish
   3. (of parts of the body) to let grown, cherish, foster
   4. (poetic, of earth and sea) to breed. produce, teem with
   5. (poetic) to have within oneself, to contain, keep, have
3. to maintain, support
   1. (in historical writers) to maintain or subsist an army
   2. (of land) to feed, maintain one
4. to bring up, rear, educate
5. the passive sometimes came to mean little more than "to be"

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• τρέφω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τρέφω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τρέφω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τρέφω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τρέφω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τρέφω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5142”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1504ff

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Verb

τρέφω • ‎(tréfo) ‎(simple past έθρεψα, passive form τρέφομαι)

1. (transitive) feed, nourish, maintain
2. (intransitive) heal, be raised

Conjugation