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ταφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταφεύς ταφέως

Structure: ταφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qa/ptw

Sense

  1. a burier

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ταφεύς ταφή ταφής
Genitive ταφέως ταφέοιν ταφέων
Dative ταφεί ταφέοιν ταφεῦσιν*
Accusative ταφέα ταφή ταφέᾱς
Vocative ταφεύ ταφή ταφής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅταν θάνω ’γὼ καὶ σύ μου ταφεὺσ γένῃ τὰ λοίσθι’ αἰτεῖ τοῦ βίου, τὰ δ’ ἐν μέσῳ ἢ λῆστιν ἴσχεισ ἢ δι’ οὐδενὸσ ποεῖ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:4)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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