τρέφω
Ancient Greek
verb
Definitions
- to thicken, congeal, curdle
- to make to grow, to increase, bring up, breed, rear (especially of children)
- to maintain, support
- to bring up, rear, educate
- the passive sometimes came to mean little more than "to be"
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *tʰrépʰō derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (crush, beat, make become thick, ferment, grind, curdle, kill, become thick cloudy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰrebʰ-
Gloss
crush, beat, make become thick, ferment, grind, curdle, kill, become thick cloudy
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
殺
Emoji
🥰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -troph English
- -trophy English
- threptic English
- tritrophic English
- tropho- English
- limitrophus Latin
- limitrophe French
- Ζεύς Ancient Greek
- διοτρεφής Ancient Greek
- θρεπτικός Ancient Greek
- πολύτροφος Ancient Greek
- τροφή Ancient Greek
- τροφικός Ancient Greek
- ψυχοτρόφος Ancient Greek
- ψυχότροφον Ancient Greek
- ψῡχή Ancient Greek
- ψῦχος Ancient Greek
- ἰχθυοτρόφος Ancient Greek
- ἰχθύς Ancient Greek
- ὀλιγότροφος Ancient Greek
- *dʰrebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- -trof Norwegian Bokmål
- *drap- Proto-Germanic
- *drepaną Proto-Germanic
- *drōbijaną Proto-Germanic
- -trof Norwegian Nynorsk
- -tróife Irish
- *drobiti Proto-Slavic
- ανατρέφω Greek (modern)
- τρέφω Greek (modern)
- τροφή Greek (modern)
- limitrophe Middle French
- *traba, *trabu Frankish
- *dreb- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *tʰrépʰō Proto-Hellenic