τάφος
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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tá.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈta.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈta.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈta.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈta.fos/
Etymology 1
From θάπτω (tháptō, “to bury”).
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (táphos) m (genitive τᾰ́φου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τᾰ́φος ho táphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ táphō |
οἱ τᾰ́φοι hoi táphoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τᾰ́φου toû táphou |
τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn táphoin |
τῶν τᾰ́φων tôn táphōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τᾰ́φῳ tôi táphōi |
τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn táphoin |
τοῖς τᾰ́φοις toîs táphois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τᾰ́φον tòn táphon |
τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ táphō |
τοὺς τᾰ́φους toùs táphous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τᾰ́φε táphe |
τᾰ́φω táphō |
τᾰ́φοι táphoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: tapho-
Etymology 2
Related to θάμβος (thámbos, “amazement”) and τέθηπα (téthēpa, “to be amazed, astounded”).
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (táphos) n (genitive τᾰ́φους or τᾰ́φεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τᾰ́φος tò táphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ táphei |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tà táphē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τᾰ́φους toû táphous |
τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn taphoîn |
τῶν τᾰφῶν tôn taphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τᾰ́φει tôi táphei |
τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn taphoîn |
τοῖς τᾰ́φεσῐ / τᾰ́φεσῐν toîs táphesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τᾰ́φος tò táphos |
τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ táphei |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tà táphē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τᾰ́φος táphos |
τᾰ́φει táphei |
τᾰ́φη táphē | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “τάφος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).
Pronunciation
Noun
τάφος • (táfos) m (plural τάφοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τάφος (táfos) | τάφοι (táfoi) |
| genitive | τάφου (táfou) | τάφων (táfon) |
| accusative | τάφο (táfo) | τάφους (táfous) |
| vocative | τάφε (táfe) | τάφοι (táfoi) |
Related terms
- and see: θάβω (thávo, “bury”)
Further reading
τάφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- τάφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
