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τίφη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίφη

Structure: τιφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the water-spider

Declension

First 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

  • Τρύφων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ ἐν τοῖσ φυτικοῖσ ἐπιγραφομένοισ ἄρτων ἐκτίθεται γένη, εἴ τι κἀγὼ μέμνημαι, ζυμίτην, ἄζυμον, σεμιδαλίτην, χονδρίτην, συγκομιστόν τοῦτον δ’ εἶναί φησι καὶ διαχωρητικώτερον τοῦ καθαροῦ τὸν ἐξ ὀλυρῶν, τὸν ἐκ τιφῶν, τὸν ἐκ μελινῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 742)

Synonyms

  1. the water-spider

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

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