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ταφεύς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: tapheus

Principal Part: ταφεύς ταφέως

Structure: ταφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: θάπτω

Sense

  1. a burier

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ταφεύς ταφή ταφής
Genitive ταφέως ταφέοιν ταφέων
Dative ταφεί ταφέοιν ταφεῦσι(ν)
Accusative ταφέα ταφή ταφέας
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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