τυφῶν
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tyː.pʰɔ̂ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tyˈpʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tyˈɸon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tyˈfon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈfon/
Etymology 1
Appellative use of Τῡφῶν (Tūphôn), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“mist, smoke, haze”).
Noun
τῡφῶν • (tūphôn) m (genitive τῡφῶνος); third declension
- synonym of τυφώς (tuphṓs, “typhoon”)
- a kind of comet
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τῡφῶν ho tūphôn |
τὼ τῡφῶνε tṑ tūphône |
οἱ τῡφῶνες hoi tūphônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τῡφῶνος toû tūphônos |
τοῖν τῡφώνοιν toîn tūphṓnoin |
τῶν τῡφώνων tôn tūphṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τῡφῶνῐ tōî tūphônĭ |
τοῖν τῡφώνοιν toîn tūphṓnoin |
τοῖς τῡφῶσῐ / τῡφῶσῐν toîs tūphôsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τῡφῶνᾰ tòn tūphônă |
τὼ τῡφῶνε tṑ tūphône |
τοὺς τῡφῶνᾰς toùs tūphônăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τῡφῶν tūphôn |
τῡφῶνε tūphône |
τῡφῶνες tūphônes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- τυφῶν in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τυφῶν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Τυφῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τυφῶν in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
τυφῶν • (tuphôn)
- genitive plural of τύφη (túphē)