Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀδών ‎(odṓn) (Ionic)

Noun

ὀδούς • ‎(odoús) m ‎(genitive ὀδόντος); third declension

1. A tooth, tusk
2. anything pointed: spike, prong
3. the second vertebra (so called because of its shape)

Declension

Derived terms

• κῠνόδους ‎(kunódous)

Descendants

• English: -odont, -odontia, odonto-
• Greek: δόντι ‎(dónti)

References

• ὀδούς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀδούς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀδούς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀδούς» 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
• «ὀδούς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὀδούς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3599”, 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.
  • fang idem, page 306.
  • tooth idem, page 880.
  • tusk idem, page 903.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill