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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)
  • ὁ σηματουργὸσ δ’ οὔ τισ εὐτελὴσ ἄρ’ ἦν ὅστισ τόδ’ ἔργον ὤπασεν πρὸσ ἀσπίδι, Τυφῶν’ ἱέντα πύρπνοον διὰ στόμα λιγνὺν μέλαιναν, αἰόλην πυρὸσ κάσιν· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:4)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ πύρπνοον Τυφῶν’ ἔχει, Ὑπερβίῳ δὲ Ζεὺσ πατὴρ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδοσ σταδαῖοσ ἧσται, διὰ χερὸσ βέλοσ φλέγων· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:12)
  • λόγον δὲ τόνδε ἐπιλέγοντεσ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι φασὶ εἶναι αὐτὴν πλωτήν, ὡσ ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ταύτῃ οὐκ ἐούσῃ πρότερον πλωτῇ Λητώ, ἐοῦσα τῶν ὀκτὼ θεῶν τῶν πρώτων γενομένων, οἰκέουσα δὲ ἐν Βουτοῖ πόλι, ἵνα δή οἱ τὸ χρηστήριον τοῦτο ἐστί, Ἀπόλλωνα παρ’ Ἴσιοσ παρακαταθήκην δεξαμένη διέσωσε κατακρύψασα ἐν τῇ νῦν πλωτῇ λεγομένῃ νήσῳ, ὅτε τὸ πᾶν διζήμενοσ ὁ Τυφῶν ἐπῆλθε, θέλων ἐξευρεῖν τοῦ Ὀσίριοσ τὸν παῖδα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 156 5:1)
  • 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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