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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Literally, “with a swollen foot”, showing the regular Caland system change */ro/ → */i/, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oydros, whence also Old High German eittar (“pus”), + πούς (poús, “foot”). Compare οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), from the same root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oi̯.dí.puːs/ → /yˈði.pus/ → /iˈði.pus/
Proper noun
Οἰδῐ́πους • (Oidípous) m (genitive Οἰδῐ́ποδος); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Oedipus
Inflection
In verse, the genitive singular is Οἰδῐ́που (Oidípou).
Descendants
References
- “Οἰδίπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Οἰδίπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1054