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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *odónts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognates include Sanskrit दत् (dát), Latin dēns, and Old English tōþ (English tooth).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.dǔːs/ → /oˈðus/ → /oˈðus/
Noun
ὀδούς • (odoús) m (genitive ὀδόντος); third declension
- A tooth, tusk
- anything pointed: spike, prong
- the second vertebra (so called because of its shape)
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References
- “ὀδούς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀδούς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀδούς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀδούς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὀδούς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀδούς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3599 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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