Τυφῶν
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From τύφω (túphō, “to raise smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, smoke, haze”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tyː.pʰɔ̂ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tyˈpʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tyˈɸon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tyˈfon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈfon/
Proper noun
Τῡφῶν • (Tūphôn) m (genitive Τῡφῶνος); third declension
Inflection
Derived terms
- Τῡφωεύς (Tūphōeús)
- Τῡφωνομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (Tūphōnomakhíā)
Descendants
References
- “Τυφῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Τυφῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
- Τυφῶν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette