τύμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tum- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tým.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtym.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtym.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtym.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtim.bos/
Noun
τύμβος • (túmbos) m (genitive τύμβου); second declension
- funeral mound, tomb, grave
Declension
Second declension of ὁ τῠ́μβος; τοῦ τῠ́μβου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῠ́μβος ho túmbos | τὼ τῠ́μβω tṑ túmbō | οἱ τῠ́μβοι hoi túmboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῠ́μβου toû túmbou | τοῖν τῠ́μβοιν toîn túmboin | τῶν τῠ́μβων tôn túmbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῠ́μβῳ tôi túmbōi | τοῖν τῠ́μβοιν toîn túmboin | τοῖς τῠ́μβοις toîs túmbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῠ́μβον tòn túmbon | τὼ τῠ́μβω tṑ túmbō | τοὺς τῠ́μβους toùs túmbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῠ́μβε túmbe | τῠ́μβω túmbō | τῠ́μβοι túmboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀποτύμβιος (apotúmbios)
- ἀτύμβευτος (atúmbeutos)
- ἄτυμβος (átumbos)
- ἐντυμβεύω (entumbeúō)
- ἐπιτυμβίδιος (epitumbídios)
- ἐπιτύμβιος (epitúmbios)
- κατατυμβοχοέω (katatumbokhoéō)
- ὀθνιότυμβος (othniótumbos)
- περιτύμβιος (peritúmbios)
- προτυμβίδιος (protumbídios)
- συντυμβωρυχέω (suntumbōrukhéō)
- τυμβαύλης (tumbaúlēs)
- τυμβεία (tumbeía)
- τύμβειος (túmbeios)
- τύμβευμα (túmbeuma)
- τυμβεύω (tumbeúō)
- τυμβήρης (tumbḗrēs)
- τυμβίδιος (tumbídios)
- τυμβίον (tumbíon)
- τύμβιος (túmbios)
- τυμβίτης (tumbítēs)
- τυμβογέρων (tumbogérōn)
- τυμβοποιός (tumbopoiós)
- τυμβοσύνη (tumbosúnē)
- τυμβοῦχος (tumboûkhos)
- τυμβοφάντης (tumbophántēs)
- τυμβοχοέω (tumbokhoéō)
- τυμβοχόη (tumbokhóē)
- τυμβοχόος (tumbokhóos)
- τυμβόχωστος (tumbókhōstos)
- τυμβόω (tumbóō)
- τυμβωρυχέω (tumbōrukhéō)
- τυμβωρυχία (tumbōrukhía)
- τυμβωρύχος (tumbōrúkhos)
Descendants
- → Latin: tumba
- Aromanian: tumbã
- Catalan: tomba
- → Greek: τούμπα (toúmpa)
- → English: tomb
- → Irish: tuama
- French: tombe
- Italian: tomba
- Portuguese: tumba
- Spanish: tumba
Further reading
- τύμβος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τύμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τύμβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τύμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τύμβος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- barrow idem, page 64.
- grave idem, page 371.
- mound idem, page 543.
- sepulchre idem, page 754.
- tomb idem, page 880.