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τρέφεται (trephetai)

τρέφεται is an Ancient Greek form of τρέφω, meaning “nourish, feed, rear”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 8.46: οὔθατα πλήθουσιν, καὶ τὰ νέα τρέφεται,

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 4.4.4: … ήσομεν δικαιότατον ὄψον εἶναι τὸ ἐκ θαλάττης· πρὸς μὲν γὰρ ταυτὶ τὰ χερσαῖα κἂν ἄλλο μηδὲν ἡμῖν δίκαιον, ἀλλὰ τρέφεταί γε τοῖς αὐτοῖς καὶ λαμβάνει τὸν αὐτὸν ἀέρα, καὶ λουτρὰ καὶ ποτὸν αὐτοῖς ἅπερ ἡμῖν ἔστιν· καὶ σφάττοντες ἐδυσω …

All forms of τρέφω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.