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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κορυφή (koruphḗ) + -αῖος (-aîos)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.ry.pʰâi̯.os/ → /ko.ryˈɸɛ.os/ → /ko.riˈfe.os/
Noun
κορῠφαῖος • (koruphaîos) m (genitive κορῠφαίου); second declension
- head man, chief, leader
- (theater) coryphaeus (conductor of the dramatic chorus)
- (attributive) at the top
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- κορυφαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κορυφαῖος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κορυφαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.