τάρφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Usually derived from τρέφω (tréphō, “to feed”) but the development is irregular and the semantics are not compelling.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tár.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtar.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtar.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtar.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtar.fos/
Noun
τάρφος • (tárphos) n (genitive τάρφεος); third declension
- thicket, shrubbery
Inflection
Third declension of τᾰ́ρφος; τᾰ́ρφεος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ́ρφος tárphos | τᾰ́ρφει / τᾰ́ρφεε tárphei / tárphee | τᾰ́ρφεᾰ tárphea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τᾰ́ρφεος / τᾰ́ρφευς tárpheos / tárpheus | τᾰρφέοιν tarphéoin | τᾰρφέων tarphéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τᾰ́ρφει / τᾰ́ρφεῐ̈ tárphei / tárpheï | τᾰρφέοιν tarphéoin | τᾰ́ρφεσῐ / τᾰ́ρφεσῐν tárphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ́ρφος tárphos | τᾰ́ρφει / τᾰ́ρφεε tárphei / tárphee | τᾰ́ρφεᾰ tárphea | ||||||||||
Vocative | τᾰ́ρφος tárphos | τᾰ́ρφει / τᾰ́ρφεε tárphei / tárphee | τᾰ́ρφεᾰ tárphea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ταρφύς (tarphús)
References
- τάρφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τάρφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τάρφος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- 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