ἔτρεφε (etrephe)

ἔτρεφε is an Ancient Greek form of τρέφω, meaning “nourish, feed, rear”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 8.2: ἔτρεφε δὲ τρισχιλίους μαχαιροφόρους, καὶ πλῆθος ἱππικῶν νεανίσκων πρὸς ἅπαν ἑτοίμων περὶ αὑτὸν εἶχεν, οὓς ἀντισύγκλη …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 18.157: … ι τῆς θαυμαστῆς ταύτης φιλοσοφίας καὶ ὑπερφυοῦς ἀσκήσεως γένωμαι. Εἶπε δὲ Βαρλαὰμ πρὸς αὐτόν· Νεβρὸν δορκάδος ἔτρεφέ τις τῶν πλουσίων. αὐξηθεῖσα δὲ αὕτη τὰς ἐρήμους ἐπόθει, τῇ φυσικῇ ἑλκομένη ἕξει. ἐξελθοῦσα τοίνυν ἐν μιᾷ, εὑρ …

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.