τρυφάς (tryphas)

τρυφάς is an Ancient Greek form of τρυφή, meaning “luxury, softness”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of τρυφάω, “live luxuriously”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Orestes 1113: τρυφὰς γὰρ ἥκει δεῦρʼ ἔχουσα Τρωικάς;

Euripides, Bacchae 970: τρυφάς γε τοιάσδε.

Plato, Euthyphro 12: … ὐχ ἕπομαι, ὦ Σώκρατες, τοῖς λεγομένοις. καὶ μὴν νεώτερός γέ μου εἶ οὐκ ἔλαττον ἢ ὅσῳ σοφώτερος· ἀλλʼ, ὃ λέγω, τρυφᾷς ὑπὸ πλούτου τῆς σοφίας. ἀλλʼ, ὦ μακάριε, σύντεινε σαυτόν· καὶ γὰρ οὐδὲ χαλεπὸν κατανοῆσαι ὃ λέγω. λέγω γὰρ δὴ …

All forms of τρυφή (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.