κορυφαῖος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κορυφή (koruphḗ) +‎ -αῖος (-aîos)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.ry.pʰâi̯.os/ → /ko.ryˈɸɛ.os/ → /ko.riˈfe.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.ry.pʰâi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.ryˈpʰɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.ryˈɸɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.ryˈfe.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.riˈfe.os/

Noun

κορῠφαῖος • (koruphaîos) m (genitive κορῠφαίου); second declension

1. head man, chief, leader
2. (theater) coryphaeus (conductor of the dramatic chorus)
3. (attributive) at the top

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κορῠφαῖος; τοῦ κορῠφαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κορῠφαῖος ho koruphaîos	τὼ κορῠφαίω tṑ koruphaíō	οἱ κορῠφαῖοι hoi koruphaîoi
Genitive	τοῦ κορῠφαίου toû koruphaíou	τοῖν κορῠφαίοιν toîn koruphaíoin	τῶν κορῠφαίων tôn koruphaíōn
Dative	τῷ κορῠφαίῳ tôi koruphaíōi	τοῖν κορῠφαίοιν toîn koruphaíoin	τοῖς κορῠφαίοις toîs koruphaíois
Accusative	τὸν κορῠφαῖον tòn koruphaîon	τὼ κορῠφαίω tṑ koruphaíō	τοὺς κορῠφαίους toùs koruphaíous
Vocative	κορῠφαῖε koruphaîe	κορῠφαίω koruphaíō	κορῠφαῖοι koruphaîoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: coryphaeus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• κορυφαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κορυφαῖος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “κορυφαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chorus idem, page 131.