The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromθρεπτικός“able to feed”
- English todaythreptic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρεπτικός (threptikós, “able to feed”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I nourish”, of food).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
threptic
Today it means: Of or pertaining to nutrition. Full definition →
Ancient Greek θρεπτικός