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τίφη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίφη

Structure: τιφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

the water-spider

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τίφη	τίφᾱ	τίφαι
Genitive	τίφης	τίφαιν	τιφῶν
Dative	τίφῃ	τίφαιν	τίφαις
Accusative	τίφην	τίφᾱ	τίφᾱς
Vocative	τίφη	τίφᾱ	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

the water-spider
- ἀράχνη (spider)
- ἀράχνης (a spider)
- φάλαγξ (spider)
- ἀράχνη (a spider's web)
- ἀράχνιον (a spider's web)
- νῆμα (a spider's web)

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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the water-spider

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