τάφος
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tá.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈta.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈta.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈta.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈta.fos/
Etymology 1
From θάπτω (tháptō, “to bury”).
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) m (genitive τᾰ́φου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τᾰ́φος ho tắphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ tắphō |
οἱ τᾰ́φοι hoi tắphoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τᾰ́φου toû tắphou |
τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn tắphoin |
τῶν τᾰ́φων tôn tắphōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τᾰ́φῳ tōî tắphōi |
τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn tắphoin |
τοῖς τᾰ́φοις toîs tắphois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τᾰ́φον tòn tắphon |
τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ tắphō |
τοὺς τᾰ́φους toùs tắphous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τᾰ́φε tắphe |
τᾰ́φω tắphō |
τᾰ́φοι tắphoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Etymology 2
Related to θάμβος (thámbos, “amazement”) and τέθηπα (téthēpa, “to be amazed, astounded”).
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) n (genitive τᾰ́φους or τᾰ́φεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τᾰ́φος tò tắphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ tắphei |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tằ tắphē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τᾰ́φους toû tắphous |
τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn tăphoîn |
τῶν τᾰφῶν tôn tăphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τᾰ́φει tōî tắphei |
τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn tăphoîn |
τοῖς τᾰ́φεσῐ / τᾰ́φεσῐν toîs tắphesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τᾰ́φος tò tắphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ tắphei |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tằ tắphē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τᾰ́φος tắphos |
τᾰ́φει tắphei |
τᾰ́φη tắphē | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Further reading
- “τάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τάφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τάφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- τάφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τάφος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5028 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- τάφος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈta.fos/
Noun
τάφος • (táfos) m (plural τάφοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τάφος (táfos) | τάφοι (táfoi) |
| genitive | τάφου (táfou) | τάφων (táfon) |
| accusative | τάφο (táfo) | τάφους (táfous) |
| vocative | τάφε (táfe) | τάφοι (táfoi) |
Related terms
- and see: θάβω (thávo, “bury”)
Further reading
- τάφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- τάφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language