τρῠφερός, ά, όν,
delicate, dainty, αὐχήν [[ Batrachomyomachia 66; πλόκαμος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 150 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χεῖρες, χρώς, σάρξ, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.65 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus), 150 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), 12.136 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of a soft material, [[ “BGU” 1080.19 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; of almonds, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 277 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of fish, tender, soft-fleshed, [[ 1st c.AD: Xenocrates Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 2.58.5 (_comparative_), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.15 (_comparative_)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of an infant, [[ [prev. author] 1.82: τὸ τ. ] Refs]dainty softness, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 901 (Lyric poetry); Θεσσαλικὸς δὲ θρόνος, γυίων -ωτάτη ἕδρα 5th c.BC: Critias Philosophus, Tragicus, Elegiacus 2; ὀθόνια 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.49 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τελαμῶνες[[ [prev. work] 83; φύλλα -ώτερα 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.161:] Refs 1st c.AD+] —τρυφερόν, τό, name of a medicine, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.757, compare 844. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II of persons, their life and habits, effeminate, luxurious, voluptuous, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 551 (_comparative_), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τ. Ἰωνία [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Callias Comicus 5 (_anapaest meter_); ἡ τ. Αέσβος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 174.5 (Lyric poetry); τ. βίῳ σύνεστιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Kith.fragment” 1.9; τ. τρόποι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 178: τὸ τ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] effeminacy, ἐς τὸ -ώτερον μετέστησαν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb, ἀκολάστως καὶ -ρῶς ζην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1269b23 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: neuter as adverb, τρυφερόν τι διασαλακώνισον voluptuously, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1169 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. καλέειν call softly, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 20.7, compare 21.18 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερον more wantonly, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 60.31. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]