Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *tum- (to swell).

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

τύμβος (túmbosm (genitive τύμβου); second declension

  1. funeral mound, tomb, grave
    • 441 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone[1], section 891:
      τύμβος, ὦ νυμφεῖον, ὦ κατασκαφὴς οἴκησις ἀείφρουρος
      ô túmbos, ô numpheîon, ô kataskaphḕs oíkēsis aeíphrouros
      ο tomb, o ⁠bridal chamber, o deep-dug home forever guarded

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Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: τύμβος (týmvos) (learned)
  • Latin: tumba (see there for further descendants)

Further reading edit

  • τύμβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τύμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • τύμβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • τύμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • τύμβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.