Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /tyɸlós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tyflós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /tiflós/

Adjective

τυφλός • ‎(tuphlós) m ‎(feminine τυφλή, neuter τυφλόν); first/second declension

1. blind
   • Homer, Iliad 6.139
   • Homeric Hymn to Apollo 172
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 454
   • Sophocles, Fragments 720
   • Theocritus, Collected Works 10.19
   • Euripides, Cyclops 697
   • Xenophon, Symposium 4.12
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.45
   • Cratinus, The Archilochuses 3
   1. of the limbs of the blind
      • Euripides, Hecuba 1050
      • Euripides, The Phoenician Women 834
      • Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1699
      • Euripides, Ion 744
      • Euripides, Herakles 199
   2. (figuratively) of the other senses and the mind
      • Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.34
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 371
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 389
   3. (figuratively)
      • Euripides, Fragments 773
      • Plutarch, Moralia 2.2.B
      • Plutarch, Moralia 98.A
      • Palatine Anthology 9.289
2. (of things) blind, dark, unseen, dim, obscure
   • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 250
   • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1104
   • Sophocles, Fragments 685
   • Palatine Anthology 7.275
   • Plato, The Republic 506.C
   • Plutarch, Alexander the Great 18
   • Plutarch, Alexander the Great 2.983.D
   • Plutarch, Alexander the Great 587.C
   1. (of passages or apertures) blind, closed, with no outlet
      • Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.14
      • Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.20, (Compare 3.26)
      • Plutarch, Sulla 20, (Compare Julius Caesar 58)
      • Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.8.4
      • Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.3.8
      • Palatine Anthology 7.400
      • Palatine Anthology 12.156
      • Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 19
3. (advervial) blindly
   • Plato, Gorgias 479.H
   • Antipater quoted in
     Stobaeus, Anthology 418
   • Strabo, Geography 9.5.21

Inflection

References

• τυφλός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τυφλός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τυφλός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «τυφλός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «τυφλός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• τυφλός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5185”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blind idem, page 83.
  • sightless idem, page 774.
  • undiscerning idem, page 914.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Adjective

τυφλός • ‎(tyflós) m ‎(feminine τυφλή, neuter τυφλό)

1. blind

Declension

Related terms

• see: τύφλα f ‎(týfla, “blindness”)