κῦφι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κοῖφῐ (koîphi)

Etymology

From Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), from kꜣp (“to cense”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kŷː.pʰi/ → /ˈcy.ɸi/ → /ˈci.fi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kŷː.pʰi/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.pʰi/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.fi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.fi/

Noun

κῦφῐ • (kûphi) n (genitive κῡ́φεως); third declension

1. kind of Egyptian compound incense

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κῦφῐ; τοῦ κῡ́φεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῦφῐ tò kûphi	τὼ κῡ́φει tṑ kū́phei	τᾰ̀ κῡ́φη / κῡ́φεᾰ tà kū́phē / kū́phea
Genitive	τοῦ κῡ́φεως toû kū́pheōs	τοῖν κῡφέοιν toîn kūphéoin	τῶν κῡ́φεων tôn kū́pheōn
Dative	τῷ κῡ́φει tôi kū́phei	τοῖν κῡφέοιν toîn kūphéoin	τοῖς κῡ́φεσῐ / κῡ́φεσῐν toîs kū́phesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κῦφῐ tò kûphi	τὼ κῡ́φει tṑ kū́phei	τᾰ̀ κῡ́φη / κῡ́φεᾰ tà kū́phē / kū́phea
Vocative	κῦφῐ kûphi	κῡ́φει kū́phei	κῡ́φη / κῡ́φεᾰ kū́phē / kū́phea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cȳphi, cȳfi, quīfi (manuscript variants)
  • >? Catalan: xufla, xufa
  • >? Spanish: chufa
    • → English: chufa

Further reading

• “κῦφι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κῦφι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette