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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἅπτω (háptō, “to kindle, set fire; to touch; to fasten”) + -ή (-ḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /aˈɸi/ → /aˈfi/
Noun
ἁφή • (haphḗ) f (genitive ἁφῆς); first declension
- lighting, kindling
- touch, sense of touch
- (in wrestling) grip
- sand sprinkled over wrestlers, to enable them to get a grip of one another
- (mathematics) point of contact, intersection
- (in the plural) stripes, strokes
- (pathology) infection, especially of leprosy
- (anatomy) junction, point of contact in the body, ligament
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