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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

  • 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)
  • ὄνυχοσ, οὐ τραχύτησ ὀδόντοσ πρόσεστιν, οὐ κοιλίασ εὐτονία καὶ πνεύματοσ θερμότησ, τρέψαι καὶ κατεργάσασθαι δυνατὴ τὸ βαρὺ καὶ κρεῶδεσ ἀλλ’ αὐτόθεν ἡ φύσισ τῇ λειότητι τῶν ὀδόντων καὶ τῇ σμικρότητι τοῦ στόματοσ καὶ τῇ μαλακότητι τῆσ γλώσσησ καὶ τῇ πρὸσ πέψιν ἀμβλύτητι τοῦ πνεύματοσ ἐξόμνυται τὴν σαρκοφαγίαν. (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 5 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. A tooth

  2. the second vertebra

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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