rearing

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. τροφή, ἡ, παιδεία, ἡ; see also begetting.

rearing of children: P. παιδοτροφία, ἡ.

rearing of horses: P. ἱπποτροφία, ἡ.

debt due for one's rearing: P. and V. τροφεῖα, τά.

yet she would but pay to the dead the debt due for her rearing: V. καὶ μὴν τίνοι γ' ἂν τῇ τεθνηκυίᾳ τροφάς (Eur., Orestes 109).