ὑφή

See also: υφή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”), possibly via ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “I weave”). Cognates include Old English webb (English web).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /yˈɸi/ → /iˈfi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.pʰɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈpʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈfi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈfi/

Noun

ῠ̔φή • (huphḗ) f (genitive ῠ̔φῆς); first declension

1. web

Usage notes

Mostly used in plural.

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῠ̔φή hē huphḗ	τὼ ῠ̔φᾱ́ tṑ huphā́	αἱ ῠ̔φαί hai huphaí
Genitive	τῆς ῠ̔φῆς tês huphês	τοῖν ῠ̔φαῖν toîn huphaîn	τῶν ῠ̔φῶν tôn huphôn
Dative	τῇ ῠ̔φῇ têi huphêi	τοῖν ῠ̔φαῖν toîn huphaîn	ταῖς ῠ̔φαῖς taîs huphaîs
Accusative	τὴν ῠ̔φήν tḕn huphḗn	τὼ ῠ̔φᾱ́ tṑ huphā́	τᾱ̀ς ῠ̔φᾱ́ς tā̀s huphā́s
Vocative	ῠ̔φή huphḗ	ῠ̔φᾱ́ huphā́	ῠ̔φαί huphaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ ῠ̔φή; τῆς ῠ̔φῆς (Attic)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὑφή (> DER > Further nouns > 1. ὑφή)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1540

Further reading

• “ὑφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • texture idem, page 863.