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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tá.pʰos/ → /ˈta.ɸos/ → /ˈta.fos/
Etymology 1
From θάπτω ( tháptō , “ to bury ” ) .
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (táphos ) m (genitive τᾰ́φου ) ; second declension
funeral rites , burial , funeral , wake
tomb , grave , sepulcher
Inflection
Descendants
Etymology 2
Related to θάμβος ( thámbos , “ amazement ” ) and τέθηπα ( téthēpa , “ to be amazed, astounded ” ) .
Noun
τᾰ́φος • (táphos ) n (genitive τᾰ́φους or τᾰ́φεος ) ; third declension
astonishment , amazement
Inflection
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 . barrow idem, page 64.burial idem, page 104.burial-place idem, page 104.entombment idem, page 278.funeral idem, page 349.grave idem, page 371.interment idem, page 451.mound idem, page 543.obsequies idem, page 566.sepulchre idem, page 754.sepulture idem, page 754.tomb idem, page 880.
“τάφος ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago , 2011
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τάφος ( táphos , “ tomb ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
τάφος • (táfos ) m (plural τάφοι )
grave , tomb
Declension
and see: θάβω ( thávo , “ bury ” )
Further reading