κυφός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Clearly related to κύπτω (kúptō, “to stoop”). The word has been linked with Lithuanian kuprà (“hump”) and Old High German hovar (“hump”). According to Beekes, the variation "κυφ-/κυπ-" points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kyː.pʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈpʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈfos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈfos/
Adjective edit
κῡφός • (kūphós) m (feminine κῡφή, neuter κῡφόν); first/second declension
Inflection edit
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | κῡφός kūphós |
κῡφή kūphḗ |
κῡφόν kūphón |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφᾱ́ kūphā́ |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφοί kūphoí |
κῡφαί kūphaí |
κῡφᾰ́ kūphá | |||||
Genitive | κῡφοῦ kūphoû |
κῡφῆς kūphês |
κῡφοῦ kūphoû |
κῡφοῖν kūphoîn |
κῡφαῖν kūphaîn |
κῡφοῖν kūphoîn |
κῡφῶν kūphôn |
κῡφῶν kūphôn |
κῡφῶν kūphôn | |||||
Dative | κῡφῷ kūphôi |
κῡφῇ kūphêi |
κῡφῷ kūphôi |
κῡφοῖν kūphoîn |
κῡφαῖν kūphaîn |
κῡφοῖν kūphoîn |
κῡφοῖς kūphoîs |
κῡφαῖς kūphaîs |
κῡφοῖς kūphoîs | |||||
Accusative | κῡφόν kūphón |
κῡφήν kūphḗn |
κῡφόν kūphón |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφᾱ́ kūphā́ |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφούς kūphoús |
κῡφᾱ́ς kūphā́s |
κῡφᾰ́ kūphá | |||||
Vocative | κῡφέ kūphé |
κῡφή kūphḗ |
κῡφόν kūphón |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφᾱ́ kūphā́ |
κῡφώ kūphṓ |
κῡφοί kūphoí |
κῡφαί kūphaí |
κῡφᾰ́ kūphá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
κῡφῶς kūphôs |
κῡφότερος kūphóteros |
κῡφότᾰτος kūphótatos | ||||||||||||
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Antonyms edit
- λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “κυφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κυφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κυφός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κυφός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN