ύφος
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ὕφος (húphos, “weaving, fabric”), from ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”) + -ος (-os, “action noun suffix”). For the "linguistic register" sense, semantic loan from English register; for the "expression" sense, semantic loan from French style.[1]
Noun
ύφος • (ýfos) n (plural ύφη)
Declension
plural forms are rare
References
- ύφος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
Further reading
ύφος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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