τῦφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Derived from the verb τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tŷː.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈty.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈty.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈty.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.fos/
Verb
τῦφος • (tûphos) m (genitive τύφου); second declension
- a kind of fever
- delusion, vanity
- nonsense
Declension
Second declension of ὁ τῦφος; τοῦ τῡ́φου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῦφος ho tûphos | τὼ τῡ́φω tṑ tū́phō | οἱ τῦφοι hoi tûphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῡ́φου toû tū́phou | τοῖν τῡ́φοιν toîn tū́phoin | τῶν τῡ́φων tôn tū́phōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῡ́φῳ tôi tū́phōi | τῡ́φοιν tū́phoin | τοῖς τῡ́φοις toîs tū́phois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῦφον tòn tûphon | τῡ́φω tū́phō | τοὺς τῡ́φους toùs tū́phous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῦφε tûphe | τῡ́φω tū́phō | τῦφοι tûphoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: τύφος (týfos)
- → New Latin: typhus
- → English: typhus
- → Danish: tyfus
- → French: typhus
- → German: Typhus
- → Russian: тиф (tif)
- → Spanish: tifus
Further reading
- τῦφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τῦφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers