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τάφος
τάφος
Ancient Greek
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /táɸos/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /táfos/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /táfos/
Noun
τάφος • (táphos) m (genitive τάφου); second declension
Inflection
Second declension of τάφος, τάφου
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τάφος | τάφω | τάφοι |
| Genitive | τάφου | τάφοιν | τάφων |
| Dative | τάφῳ | τάφοιν | τάφοις |
| Accusative | τάφον | τάφω | τάφους |
| Vocative | τάφε | τάφω | τάφοι |
Etymology 2
Related to θάμβος (thámbos, “amazement”) and τέθηπα (téthēpa, “I am amazed, astounded”).
Noun
τάφος • (táphos) n (genitive τέφεος, τέφους); third declension
Inflection
Third declension of τέφος, τέφεος (uncontracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τέφος | τέφεε | τέφεᾰ |
| Genitive | τέφεος | τεφέοιν | τεφέων |
| Dative | τέφεϊ | τεφέοιν | τέφεσσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τέφος | τέφεε | τέφεᾰ |
| Vocative | τέφος | τέφεε | τέφεᾰ |
| Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *τέφεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
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Third declension of τέφος, τέφους (contracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τέφος | τέφει | τέφη |
| Genitive | τέφους | τεφοῖν | τεφῶν |
| Dative | τέφει | τεφοῖν | τέφεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | τέφος | τέφει | τέφη |
| Vocative | τέφος | τέφει | τέφη |
| Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
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References
- τάφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τάφος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τάφος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «τάφος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «τάφος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τάφος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G5028”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.