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ὀδούς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀδούς ὀδόντος

Structure: ὀδοντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. A tooth, tusk
  2. anything pointed: spike, prong
  3. the second vertebra (so called because of its shape)

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀδούς ὀδόντε ὀδόντες
Genitive ὀδόντος ὀδόντοιν ὀδόντων
Dative ὀδόντι ὀδόντοιν ὀδοῦσιν*
Accusative ὀδόντα ὀδόντε ὀδόντας
Vocative ὀδόν ὀδόντε ὀδόντες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ, ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντοσ, χεῖρα ἀντὶ χειρόσ, πόδα ἀντὶ ποδόσ, (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:24)
  • ἐὰν δὲ τὸν ὀδόντα τοῦ οἰκέτου ἢ τὸν ὀδόντα τῆσ θεραπαίνησ αὐτοῦ ἐκκόψῃ, ἐλευθέρουσ ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτοὺσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀδόντοσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:27)
  • σύντριμμα ἀντὶ συντρίμματοσ, ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ, ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντοσ, καθότι ἂν δῷ μῶμον τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, οὕτω δοθήσεται αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 24:20)
  • οὐ φείσεται ὁ ὀφθαλμόσ σου ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ. ψυχὴν ἀντὶ ψυχῆσ, ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ, ὀδόντα ἀντὶ ὀδόντοσ, χεῖρα ἀντὶ χειρόσ, πόδα ἀντὶ ποδόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 19:21)

Synonyms

  1. A tooth

  2. the second vertebra

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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