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τίφη?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: tiphē

Principal Part: τίφη

Structure: τιφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the water-spider

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τίφη τίφα τίφαι
Genitive τίφης τίφαιν τιφῶν
Dative τίφῃ τίφαιν τίφαις
Accusative τίφην τίφα τίφας
Vocative τίφη τίφα τίφαι

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

  • ἐνθεὶς ἂν ἐς τίφην ἀνὴρ Βοιώτιος ἅψας ἄν ἐσπέμψειεν ἐς τὸ νεώριον δι ὑδρορρόας, βορέαν ἐπιτηρήσας μέγαν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:31)
  • ὦ κάκιστ ἀπολούμενε, σελαγοῖντ ἂν ὑπὸ τίφης τε καὶ θρυαλλίδος· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:33)
  • 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)
  • Μνησίθεος δέ φησι τὸν ἄρτον τῆς μάζης εὐπεπτότερον εἶναι καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς τίφης μᾶλλον ἱκανῶς τρέφειν πέττεσθαι γὰρ αὐτοὺς οὐ μετὰ πολλοῦ πόνου, τὸν δ ἐκ τῶν ζειῶν ἄρτον ἄδην φησὶν ἐσθιόμενον βαρὺν εἶναι καὶ δύσπεπτον διὸ οὐχ ὑγιαίνειν τοὺς αὐτὸν ἐσθίοντας. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 8317)

Synonyms

  1. the water-spider

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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