ζόφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dzópʰos. Beekes claims it's Pre-Greek.[1] But compare Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros), connected by some to Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ-.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ζόφος • (zóphos) m (genitive ζόφου); second declension

  1. darkness, gloom
  2. the dark quarter; the west

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ζόφος; τοῦ ζόφου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ζόφος
ho zóphos 		τὼ ζόφω
tṑ zóphō 		οἱ ζόφοι
hoi zóphoi
Genitive τοῦ ζόφου
toû zóphou 		τοῖν ζόφοιν
toîn zóphoin 		τῶν ζόφων
tôn zóphōn
Dative τῷ ζόφῳ
tōî zóphōi 		τοῖν ζόφοιν
toîn zóphoin 		τοῖς ζόφοις
toîs zóphois
Accusative τὸν ζόφον
tòn zóphon 		τὼ ζόφω
tṑ zóphō 		τοὺς ζόφους
toùs zóphous
Vocative ζόφε
zóphe 		ζόφω
zóphō 		ζόφοι
zóphoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502

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