cyphi
Latin
Alternative forms
- cȳfi, quīfi (manuscript variants)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkyː.pʰi/, [ˈkyːpʰɪ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.fi/, [ˈt͡ʃiːfi]
Noun
cȳphi n (genitive cȳphis); third declension
- a kind of compound incense from the Egyptians
- 392 CE, Jerome, Against Jovinianus II.8:
- Odoris autem suavitas et diversa thymiamata et amomum et cyphi, oenanthe, muscus et peregrini muris pellicula, quod dissolutis et amatoribus conveniat, nemo nisi dissolutus negat.
- That the sweetness of the smell of various kinds of incense and amomum and cyphi, oenanthe, musk, and the skins of the exotic mouse fit the dissolute and loving nobody but a dissolute will negate.
- Odoris autem suavitas et diversa thymiamata et amomum et cyphi, oenanthe, muscus et peregrini muris pellicula, quod dissolutis et amatoribus conveniat, nemo nisi dissolutus negat.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | cȳphi |
| Genitive | cȳphis |
| Dative | cȳphī |
| Accusative | cȳphi |
| Ablative | cȳphī |
| Vocative | cȳphi |
Further reading
- “cyphi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cyphi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cyphi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cȳphi” in volume 4, column 1593, line 12–18 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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