κορυφαῖος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From κορυφή (koruphḗ) + -αῖος (-aîos)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.ry.pʰâi̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.ryˈpʰɛ.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.ryˈɸɛ.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.ryˈfe.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.riˈfe.os/
Noun[edit]
κορῠφαῖος • (koruphaîos) m (genitive κορῠφαίου); second declension
- head man, chief, leader
- (theater) coryphaeus (conductor of the dramatic chorus)
- (attributive) at the top
Declension[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κορῠφαῖος ho koruphaîos |
τὼ κορῠφαίω tṑ koruphaíō |
οἱ κορῠφαῖοι hoi koruphaîoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κορῠφαίου toû koruphaíou |
τοῖν κορῠφαίοιν toîn koruphaíoin |
τῶν κορῠφαίων tôn koruphaíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κορῠφαίῳ tôi koruphaíōi |
τοῖν κορῠφαίοιν toîn koruphaíoin |
τοῖς κορῠφαίοις toîs koruphaíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κορῠφαῖον tòn koruphaîon |
τὼ κορῠφαίω tṑ koruphaíō |
τοὺς κορῠφαίους toùs koruphaíous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κορῠφαῖε koruphaîe |
κορῠφαίω koruphaíō |
κορῠφαῖοι koruphaîoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants[edit]
- Latin: coryphaeus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading[edit]
- κορυφαῖος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κορυφαῖος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “κορυφαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- chorus idem, page 131.
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