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τύφη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύφη

Structure: τυφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

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

  • ἔλαθε τὸν Λαῖτον ὅτι καὶ τὰ λιμναῖα φυτά, τύφη καὶ φλέωσ καὶ θρύον, ἀναυξῆ καὶ ἀβλαστῆ μένει, μὴ γενομένων ὄμβρων καθ’ ὡρ́αν τὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλουσ ἀληθέσ, ὅτι πρόσφατόν ἐστι καὶ νέον ὕδωρ τὸ ὑόμενον ἑώλον δὲ καὶ παλαιὸν τὸ λιμναῖον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 2 3:1)
  • ἂν τύφῃ τισ, ἂν ὅπλ’ ἐπιφέρῃ, ἂν ἐπικατατέμνῃ τῶν μέτρων ἐντόσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 62:5)
  • τύφη τε καὶ πάπυροσ ἀνθήλη τε πολλὴ κατακομίζεται ποταμοῖσ εἰσ τὴν Ῥώμην, οὓσ ἐκδιδόασιν αἱ λίμναι μέχρι τοῦ Τιβέρεωσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 18:13)

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

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