τυφόω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke”) +‎ -όω (-óō), literally “to fill with smoke”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tyː.pʰó.ɔː/ → /tyˈɸo.o/ → /tiˈfo.o/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tyː.pʰó.ɔː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tyˈpʰo.o/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tyˈɸo.o/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyˈfo.o/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiˈfo.o/

Verb

τῡφόω • (tūphóō)

1. to delude, especially
   1. to "puff up" with pride, arrogance, insolence, etc.

Usage notes

Usually used in the past perfect tense ("to have been deluded" or "puffed up with pride") to describe a present state ("to be demented" or "prideful, arrogant, insolent, etc.").

References

• “τυφόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τυφόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τυφόω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette