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τροφάς (trophas)

τροφάς is an Ancient Greek form of τροφή, meaning “food, nourishment”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.13: … πηγόρευεν ἅπτεσθαι συνασκῶν καὶ συνεθίζων εἰς εὐκολίαν βίου τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ὥστε εὐπορίστους αὐτοῖς εἶναι τὰς τροφάς, ἄπυρα προσφερομένοις καὶ λιτὸν ὕδωρ πίνουσιν· ἐντεῦθεν γὰρ καὶ σώματος ὑγίειαν καὶ ψυχῆς ὀξύτητα περιγίνεσθα …

Euripides, Ion 52: νέος μὲν οὖν ὢν ἀμφὶ βωμίους τροφὰς

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 847: χάριν ἔχω ζόας, χάριν ἔχω τροφᾶς,

All forms of τροφή (declension 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.