brephotrophus

brephotrophus (bre-fah-tr[schwa]-f[schwa]s). [Greek] Civil law. A person who manages institutions that receive and care for poor or abandoned children. • The word is Greek in origin (lit. meaning “one who feeds an infant”) and was used in late Roman law, but it first appeared in English in the 18th century. Pl. brephotrophi.

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