τίφη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tí.pʰɛː/ → /ˈti.ɸi/ → /ˈti.fi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tí.pʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.pʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi/

Noun

τῐ́φη • (tĭ́phē) f (genitive τῐ́φης); first declension

1. einkorn wheat

Inflection

First declension of ἡ τῐ́φη; τῆς τῐ́φης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ τῐ́φη hē tĭ́phē	τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ tĭ́phā	αἱ τῐ́φαι hai tĭ́phai
Genitive	τῆς τῐ́φης tês tĭ́phēs	τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn tĭ́phain	τῶν τῐφῶν tôn tĭphôn
Dative	τῇ τῐ́φῃ têi tĭ́phēi	τοῖν τῐ́φαιν toîn tĭ́phain	ταῖς τῐ́φαις taîs tĭ́phais
Accusative	τὴν τῐ́φην tḕn tĭ́phēn	τὼ τῐ́φᾱ tṑ tĭ́phā	τᾱ̀ς τῐ́φᾱς tā̀s tĭ́phās
Vocative	τῐ́φη tĭ́phē	τῐ́φᾱ tĭ́phā	τῐ́φαι tĭ́phai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τίφινος (típhinos)

Further reading

• “τίφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τίφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN