Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὑδωρ ‎(houdōr) Boeotian

Noun

ὕδωρ • ‎(húdōr) n ‎(genitive ὕδᾰτος); third declension

1. water
2. rainwater, rain
3. sweat
4. time (from the waterclocks of Greek legal systems)

Usage notes

The first upsilon is sometimes lengthened in poetry:

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.110

  οἱ μὲν ἄρ' οἶνον ἔμισγον ἐνὶ κρητῆρσι καὶ ῡ̔́δωρ,

  some were mixing wine and water in mixing bowls,

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.216

  ὣς ἔφατ', Ἀσφαλίων δ' ἄρ ῠ̔́δωρ ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἔχευεν,

  So [Menelaus] said, and Asphalion poured water on their hands,

Inflection

Derived terms

• ὑδάτινος ‎(hudátinos) (watery)
• ὑδατολογία ‎(hudatología) (hydatology — science of water)
• ὕδρα ‎(húdra) (hydra)
• ὑδράργυρος ‎(hudrárguros)
• ὑδρατμός ‎(hudratmós) (water vapor)
• ὑδραυλικός ‎(hudraulikós) (hydraulic)
• ὕδραυλος ‎(húdraulos)
• ὑδρογόνον ‎(hudrogónon) (hydrogen)
• ὑδρογραφία ‎(hudrographía) (hydrography)
• ὑδρολογία ‎(hudrología) (hydrology)
• ὑδροφοβία ‎(hudrophobía) (hydrophobia)
• ὑδροχόη ‎(hudrokhóē) (water pitcher)

Related terms

• ὕω ‎(húō)

Descendants

• English: hydro-
• Greek: ύδωρ ‎(ýdor)

References

• ὕδωρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕδωρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὕδωρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ὕδωρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὕδωρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5204”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fall idem, page 303.
  • rain idem, page 669.
  • shower idem, page 770.
  • slosh idem, page 785.
  • water idem, page 967.