τάφος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tá.pʰos/ → /ˈta.ɸos/ → /ˈta.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tá.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈta.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈta.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈta.fos/

Etymology 1

From θᾰ́πτω (thắptō, “to bury”), particularly from the aorist stem τᾰφ- (tăph-) with its metathesis of the aspiration.

Noun

τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) m (genitive τᾰ́φου); second declension

1. funeral rites; burial; funeral; wake
2. tomb; grave; sepulcher

Declension

Second declension of ὁ τᾰ́φος; τοῦ τᾰ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τᾰ́φος ho tắphos	τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ tắphō	οἱ τᾰ́φοι hoi tắphoi
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰ́φου toû tắphou	τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn tắphoin	τῶν τᾰ́φων tôn tắphōn
Dative	τῷ τᾰ́φῳ tōî tắphōi	τοῖν τᾰ́φοιν toîn tắphoin	τοῖς τᾰ́φοις toîs tắphois
Accusative	τὸν τᾰ́φον tòn tắphon	τὼ τᾰ́φω tṑ tắphō	τοὺς τᾰ́φους toùs tắphous
Vocative	τᾰ́φε tắphe	τᾰ́φω tắphō	τᾰ́φοι tắphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: tapho-
• → English: -taph

Etymology 2

Related to θᾰ́μβος (thắmbos, “amazement”) and τέθηπᾰ (téthēpă, “to be amazed; to be astounded”).

Noun

τᾰ́φος • (tắphos) n (genitive τᾰ́φους or τᾰ́φεος); third declension

1. astonishment; amazement

Declension

Third declension of τὸ τᾰ́φος; τοῦ τᾰ́φους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τᾰ́φος tò tắphos	τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ tắphei	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tằ tắphē
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰ́φους toû tắphous	τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn tăphoîn	τῶν τᾰφῶν tôn tăphôn
Dative	τῷ τᾰ́φει tōî tắphei	τοῖν τᾰφοῖν toîn tăphoîn	τοῖς τᾰ́φεσῐ / τᾰ́φεσῐν toîs tắphesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ τᾰ́φος tò tắphos	τὼ τᾰ́φει tṑ tắphei	τᾰ̀ τᾰ́φη tằ tắphē
Vocative	τᾰ́φος tắphos	τᾰ́φει tắphei	τᾰ́φη tắphē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τάφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “τάφος” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τάφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τάφος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5028 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barrow idem, page 64.
  • burial idem, page 104.
  • burial-place idem, page 104.
  • entombment idem, page 278.
  • funeral idem, page 349.
  • grave idem, page 371.
  • interment idem, page 451.
  • mound idem, page 543.
  • obsequies idem, page 566.
  • sepulchre idem, page 754.
  • sepulture idem, page 754.
  • tomb idem, page 880.
• τάφος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.fos/

Noun

τάφος • (táfos) m (plural τάφοι)

1. grave, tomb

Declension

Declension of τάφος

	singular	plural
nominative	τάφος (táfos)	τάφοι (táfoi)
genitive	τάφου (táfou)	τάφων (táfon)
accusative	τάφο (táfo)	τάφους (táfous)
vocative	τάφε (táfe)	τάφοι (táfoi)

Related terms

• ταφή f (tafí, “burial”)
• ταφόπετρα f (tafópetra, “gravestone”)
• ταφόπλακα f (tafóplaka, “gravestone”)

• and see: θάβω (thávo, “bury”)

Further reading

• τάφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• τάφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language