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τάφος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τάφος τάφου

Structure: ταφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qa/ptw

Sense

  1. funeral rites, burial, funeral, wake
  2. tomb, grave

Declension

Second declension

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

  • καὶ οἱ τάφοι αὐτῶν οἰκίαι αὐτῶν εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα, σκηνώματα αὐτῶν εἰσ γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν. ἐπεκαλέσαντο τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῶν γαιῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 48:12)
  • οὐ μεγάλοι, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, οἱ τάφοι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 23:6)
  • τάφοι γὰρ αὐτῶν ἔτι καὶ νῦν δείκνυνται περὶ τὴν Σκοτουσαίαν καὶ τὰσ Κυνὸσ κεφαλάσ. (Plutarch, chapter 27 6:5)
  • καὶ μὴν μέγασ γ’ ὀφθαλμὸσ οἱ πατρὸσ τάφοι. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:8)
  • μέρη δὲ τιμῆσ θυσίαι, μνῆμαι ἐν μέτροισ καὶ ἄνευ μέτρων, γέρα, τεμένη, προεδρίαι, τάφοι, εἰκόνεσ, τροφαὶ δημόσιαι, τὰ βαρβαρικά, οἱο͂ν προσκυνήσεισ καὶ ἐκστάσεισ, δῶρα τὰ παρ’ ἑκάστοισ τίμια. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. funeral rites

  2. tomb

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