τροφ-ή, ἡ, (τρέφω)
nourishment, food, [
NT+5th c.BC+];
the means of maintaining an army,
provisions, forage, τροφὴν παρέχειν [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]
2) βίου τροφαί
way of life,
livelihood, living, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τροφή alone, δουλίαν ἕξειν τροφήν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: then, simply,
mode of life, δίκην τίνουσαι τῆς προτέρας τ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3)
that which provides or
procures sustenance, as the bow of Philoctetes, χερὶ πάλλων τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου τροφάν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4)
a meal, τροφαῖς τέτταρσιν ἐχρῶντο Philem.[
Refs] cited in [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II)
nurture, rearing, παιδία. τρέφειν. τροφήν τινα τοιήνδε [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χάριν τροφᾶς ἀμείβων variant in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
while in the nursery, opposed to ἐφηβήσας, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκτίνων τροφάς, much like{τροφεῖα}, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2)
education, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3)
rearing or
keeping of animals, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) sometimes in Poets for the concrete θρέμμα,
brood, νέα τ. a new
generation, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals, ἀρνῶν τροφαί, i.e. young lambs, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV) a
place in which animals
are reared, ἰβίων τροφαί [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]