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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zó.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzo.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzo.fos/
Noun
ζόφος • (zóphos) m (genitive ζόφου); second declension
- darkness, gloom
- the dark quarter; the west
Declension
Second declension of ὁ ζόφος; τοῦ ζόφου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 tôi 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 | ||||||||||
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References
- 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
Further reading
- “ζόφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press