τύφη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tū́pʰā, often regarded as cognate with Latin tuber (“truffle”), English tuft and Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), all from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). However the meaning of the Greek word is sufficiently different to render its connection with the other words purely hypothetical.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

τύφη • (túphē) f (genitive τύφης); first declension

1. plant used for stuffing bolsters and beds
2. reedmace, cattail, bulrush (Typha angustifolia)
3. sort of tiara

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τύφη; τῆς τύφης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τύφη hē túphē	τὼ τύφᾱ tṑ túphā	αἱ τύφαι hai túphai
Genitive	τῆς τύφης tês túphēs	τοῖν τύφαιν toîn túphain	τῶν τυφῶν tôn tuphôn
Dative	τῇ τύφῃ têi túphēi	τοῖν τύφαιν toîn túphain	ταῖς τύφαις taîs túphais
Accusative	τὴν τύφην tḕn túphēn	τὼ τύφᾱ tṑ túphā	τᾱ̀ς τύφᾱς tā̀s túphās
Vocative	τύφη túphē	τύφᾱ túphā	τύφαι túphai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τυφήρης (tuphḗrēs)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Typha

Further reading

• “τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τύφη 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