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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

  • τὰ κρέα ἔτι ἦν ἐν τοῖσ ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν πρινὴ ἐκλείπειν, καὶ Κύριοσ ἐθυμώθη εἰσ τὸν λαόν, καὶ ἐπάταξε Κύριοσ τὸν λαὸν πληγὴν μεγάλην σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 11:33)
  • εὐλογητὸσ Κύριοσ, ὃσ οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἡμᾶσ εἰσ θήραν τοῖσ ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 123:6)
  • ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκεσ μου, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 19:20)
  • καὶ ὁ λάρυγξ σου ὡσ οἶνοσ ὁ ἀγαθόσ, πορευόμενοσ τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου εἰσ εὐθύτητα, ἱκανούμενοσ χείλεσί μου καὶ ὀδοῦσιν. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:10)
  • τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ προφήτασ τοὺσ πλανῶντασ τὸν λαόν μου, τοὺσ δάκνοντασ ἐν τοῖσ ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν καὶ κηρύσσοντασ εἰρήνην ἐπ̓ αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ ἐδόθη εἰσ τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν, ἤγειραν ἐπ̓ αὐτὸν πόλεμον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. A tooth

  2. the second vertebra

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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