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ὕφος

uphos · τό

web, net, text

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What it meant

ὕφος · hyphos — LSJ

web, net

= ὑφή, web, Pherecr. 243, Eub. 67.5 ( = 84.4, cf. ὑμήν), Str. 10.1.6, Plu. Pyth. 2.396b; ἐριοῦν ὕ. Dsc. 1.19; of a spider, Id. 2.63; of a net, AP 9.370 (Tib. Ill.).

2 text, series

metaph., τὸ τῶν λόγων ὕ. Longin. 1.4, cf. Hermog. Inv. 3.13; τὰς ποιήσεις οἷον ὕφη Phld. Po. 5.11; of the text of an author, Gal. 17(1).80; τὸ φυσικὸν ὕ. τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ the natural series of numbers, Nicom. Ar. 1.9.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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