The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτροφικός“nursing, tending”
- English todaytritrophic
From tri- (“three”) + -trophic (“relating to feeding and nutrition”), from Ancient Greek τροφικός (trophikós, “nursing, tending”), from τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment, food”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekτροφικός all →
trophic-trophic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.