τίφυον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike lavender”) shows a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tí.pʰy.on/ → /ˈti.ɸy.on/ → /ˈti.fi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tí.pʰy.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.pʰy.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɸy.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fy.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.fi.on/

Noun

τίφῠον • (típhuon) n (genitive τιφύου); second declension

1. autumn squill (Prospero autumnale)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τίφῠον; τοῦ τιφῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τίφῠον tò típhuon	τὼ τιφῠ́ω tṑ tiphúō	τᾰ̀ τίφῠᾰ tà típhua
Genitive	τοῦ τιφῠ́ου toû tiphúou	τοῖν τιφῠ́οιν toîn tiphúoin	τῶν τιφῠ́ων tôn tiphúōn
Dative	τῷ τιφῠ́ῳ tôi tiphúōi	τοῖν τιφῠ́οιν toîn tiphúoin	τοῖς τιφῠ́οις toîs tiphúois
Accusative	τὸ τίφῠον tò típhuon	τὼ τιφῠ́ω tṑ tiphúō	τᾰ̀ τίφῠᾰ tà típhua
Vocative	τίφῠον típhuon	τιφῠ́ω tiphúō	τίφῠᾰ típhua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τίφυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τίφυον 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