τῦφος

Ancient Greek

Derived from the verb τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”).^[1]

τῦφος • (tûphos) m (genitive τύφου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῦφος ho tûphos	τὼ τῡ́φω tṑ tū́phō	οἱ τῦφοι hoi tûphoi
Genitive	τοῦ τῡ́φου toû tū́phou	τοῖν τῡ́φοιν toîn tū́phoin	τῶν τῡ́φων tôn tū́phōn
Dative	τῷ τῡ́φῳ tôi tū́phōi	τοῖν τῡ́φοιν toîn tū́phoin	τοῖς τῡ́φοις toîs tū́phois
Accusative	τὸν τῦφον tòn tûphon	τὼ τῡ́φω tṑ tū́phō	τοὺς τῡ́φους toùs tū́phous
Vocative	τῦφε tûphe	τῡ́φω tū́phō	τῦφοι tûphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: τύφος (týfos)
→ New Latin: typhus (see there for further descendants)
→ Vulgar Latin:
- Spanish: tufo (“bad smell, stench”)
- Occitan: tuba (“smoke, cloud, mist”)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τύφομαι, -ω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1522