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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐρέφω (eréphō) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.ro.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /o.roˈɸi/ → /o.roˈfi/
Noun
ὀροφή • (orophḗ) f (genitive ὀροφῆς); first declension
- ceiling
- roof
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “ὀροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀροφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.