τυφλός

Adjectival formation in -λός (-lós) from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep, hazy, foggy”). Cognates include Old Irish dub (“dark”), Old English deaf (English deaf), Albanian dudum.^[1]

τῠφλός • (tuphlós) m (feminine τῠφλή, neuter τῠφλόν); first/second declension

1. blind
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.139
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Apollo 172
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 454
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 720
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 10.19
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 697
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.45
   • 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, The Archilochuses 3
   1. of the limbs of the blind
      • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 1050
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 834
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1699
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 744
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 199
   2. (figuratively) of the other senses and the mind
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.34
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 371
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 389
   3. (figuratively)
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 773
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.2B
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 98A
      • Palatine Anthology 9.289
2. (of things) blind, dark, unseen, dim, obscure
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 250
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1104
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 685
   • Palatine Anthology 7.275
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 506C
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 18
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 2.983D
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alexander the Great 587C
   1. (of passages or apertures) blind, closed, with no outlet
      • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.14
      • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.20, (Compare 3.26)
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 20, (Compare Julius Caesar 58)
      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.8.4
      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.3.8
      • Palatine Anthology 7.400
      • Palatine Anthology 12.156
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 19
3. (adverbial) blindly
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 479H
   • Antipater quoted in
     300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 418
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 9.5.21

• Greek: τυφλός (tyflós)

• “τυφλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τυφλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τυφλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τυφλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τυφλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τυφλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5185 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.
  • blind idem, page 83.
  • sightless idem, page 774.
  • undiscerning idem, page 914.

From Ancient Greek τῠφλός (tuphlós).

τυφλός • (tyflós) m (feminine τυφλή, neuter τυφλό)

1. blind

• see: τύφλα f (týfla, “blindness”)

• στα τυφλά (sta tyflá, “blindly, blindsided, flying blind, sight unseen”, adverb)