ζόφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dzópʰos. Beekes claims it's Pre-Greek.[1] But compare Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros), connected by some to Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ-.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ζόφος • (zóphos) m (genitive ζόφου); second declension

  1. darkness, gloom
  2. the dark quarter; the west

Declension
Second declension of ὁ ζόφος; τοῦ ζόφου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ζόφος
ho zóphos		 τὼ ζόφω
tṑ zóphō		 οἱ ζόφοι
hoi zóphoi
Genitive τοῦ ζόφου
toû zóphou		 τοῖν ζόφοιν
toîn zóphoin		 τῶν ζόφων
tôn zóphōn
Dative τῷ ζόφῳ
tôi zóphōi		 τοῖν ζόφοιν
toîn zóphoin		 τοῖς ζόφοις
toîs zóphois
Accusative τὸν ζόφον
tòn zóphon		 τὼ ζόφω
tṑ zóphō		 τοὺς ζόφους
toùs zóphous
Vocative ζόφε
zóphe		 ζόφω
zóphō		 ζόφοι
zóphoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References
  1. 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, page 502

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