τίφη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tí.pʰɛː/ → /ˈti.ɸi/ → /ˈti.fi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tí.pʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.pʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi/

Noun

τῐ́φη • (típhē) f (genitive τῐ́φης); first declension

1. einkorn wheat

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῐ́φη; τῆς τῐ́φης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐ́φη hē típhē	τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ típhā	αἱ τῐ́φαι hai típhai
Genitive	τῆς τῐ́φης tês típhēs	τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn típhain	τῶν τῐφῶν tôn tiphôn
Dative	τῇ τῐ́φῃ têi típhēi	τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn típhain	ταῖς τῐ́φαις taîs típhais
Accusative	τὴν τῐ́φην tḕn típhēn	τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ típhā	τᾱ̀ς τῐ́φᾱς tā̀s típhās
Vocative	τῐ́φη típhē	τῐ́φᾱ típhā	τῐ́φαι típhai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τίφινος (típhinos)

Further reading

• “τίφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τίφη 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