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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

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

  • χαροποιοὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ οἴνου, καὶ λευκοὶ οἱ ὀδόντεσ αὐτοῦ ἢ γάλα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:12)
  • καὶ ἐρρύσατο τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐκ μέσου σκύμνων. ἐκοιμήθην τεταραγμένοσ. υἱοὶ ἀνθρώπων, οἱ ὀδόντεσ αὐτῶν ὅπλα καὶ βέλη, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν μάχαιρα ὀξεῖα. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 56:5)
  • ὀδόντεσ σου ὡσ ἀγέλαι τῶν κεκαρμένων, αἳ ἀνέβησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λουτροῦ, αἱ πᾶσαι διδυμεύουσαι, καὶ ἀτεκνοῦσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖσ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 4:2)
  • ὀδόντεσ σου ὡσ ἀγέλαι τῶν κεκαρμένων, αἳ ἀνέβησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λουτροῦ, αἱ πᾶσαι διδυμεύουσαι, καὶ ἀτεκνοῦσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐταῖσ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 6:6)
  • τοὺσ δὲ υἱούσ σου οὐδὲ ἰοβόλων δρακόντων ἐνίκησαν ὀδόντεσ, τὸ ἔλεοσ γάρ σου ἀντιπαρῆλθε καὶ ἰάσατο αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:10)

Synonyms

  1. A tooth

  2. the second vertebra

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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