τάφος

From θάπτω (tháptō, “to bury”).

τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) m (genitive τᾰ́φου); second declension

1. funeral rites, burial, funeral, wake
2. tomb, grave, sepulcher

• → English: tapho-
• → English: -taph

Related to θάμβος (thámbos, “amazement”) and τέθηπα (téthēpa, “to be amazed, astounded”).

τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) n (genitive τᾰ́φους or τᾰ́φεος); third declension

1. astonishment, amazement

• “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^[1], 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 [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Inherited from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.fos/

τάφος • (táfos) m (plural τάφοι)

1. grave, tomb

• ταφή f (tafí, “burial”)
• ταφόπετρα f (tafópetra, “gravestone”)
• ταφόπλακα f (tafóplaka, “gravestone”)

• and see: θάβω (thávo, “bury”)

• τάφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• τάφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language