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Οἰδίπους

Οἰδίπους

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Οἰδίπους (Oidípous) m (genitive Οἰδίποδος); third declension

  1. Oedipus

Inflection

In verse, the genitive singular is Οἰδίπου.

Descendants

  • Greek: Οιδίπους (Oidípous); Οιδίποδας (Oidípodas)
  • Latin: Oedipus

References

  • Οἰδίπους in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Οἰδίπους in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1054