τίφυον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike lavender”) shows a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tí.pʰy.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.pʰy.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɸy.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.fy.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.fi.on/
Noun
τίφῠον • (típhŭon) n (genitive τιφύου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τίφῠον tò típhŭon |
τὼ τιφῠ́ω tṑ tiphŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ τίφῠᾰ tằ típhŭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τιφῠ́ου toû tiphŭ́ou |
τοῖν τιφῠ́οιν toîn tiphŭ́oin |
τῶν τιφῠ́ων tôn tiphŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τιφῠ́ῳ tōî tiphŭ́ōi |
τοῖν τιφῠ́οιν toîn tiphŭ́oin |
τοῖς τιφῠ́οις toîs tiphŭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τίφῠον tò típhŭon |
τὼ τιφῠ́ω tṑ tiphŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ τίφῠᾰ tằ típhŭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τίφῠον típhŭon |
τιφῠ́ω tiphŭ́ō |
τίφῠᾰ típhŭă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τίφυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τίφυον 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