Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy" [2] . Saint Tryphon, a gooseherder from Syria, was martyred in the 3rd century.
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Sources & References
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Τρύφων.
- Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry trufh/, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dtrufh%2F.
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Entry updated May 26, 2026