τίφη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. According to Beekes, a "Pre-Greek assibilation," related to Latin delpa.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tí.pʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.pʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.fi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.fi/
Noun
τῐ́φη • (tĭ́phē) f (genitive τῐ́φης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ τῐ́φη hē tĭ́phē |
τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ tĭ́phā |
αἱ τῐ́φαι hai tĭ́phai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς τῐ́φης tês tĭ́phēs |
τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn tĭ́phain |
τῶν τῐφῶν tôn tĭphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ τῐ́φῃ tēî tĭ́phēi |
τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn tĭ́phain |
ταῖς τῐ́φαις taîs tĭ́phais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν τῐ́φην tḕn tĭ́phēn |
τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ tĭ́phā |
τᾱ̀ς τῐ́φᾱς tā̀s tĭ́phās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῐ́φη tĭ́phē |
τῐ́φᾱ tĭ́phā |
τῐ́φαι tĭ́phai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τίφινος (típhinos)
Further reading
- “τίφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τίφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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