ὀδούς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=όντος, ὁ, nom.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ὀδούς Arist.EN1161b23, LXX 1 Ki.14.4, Luc. Musc.Enc.3, Paus.5.12.2, Philostr.VA2.13, Ach.Tat.7.4; Ion. [[ὀδών]] Hdt.6.107 (bis), Hp.Epid.4.19,52, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.928 :—[[tooth]], Il.5.74, al.; ἕρκος ὀδόντων, v. [[ἕρκος]]; [[πρίειν]] ὀδόντας, v. [[πρίω]]; ὀδόντες ὀξεῖς = [[incisor]]s, opp. ὀδόντες [[πλατεῖς]] = [[molar]]s, Arist.PA661b8, al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., γλυκὺς ὀδοὺς ὁ τοῦ πόθου Luc.Am.3; ὁ τῆς [[λύπη]]ς ὀδούς = the [[tooth]] of [[grief]], Ach.Tat. l.c.<br><span class="bld">II</span> anything [[pointed]] or [[sharp]], [[tooth]], [[prong]], [[spike]], etc., Nic. Th.85 : pl., [[teeth]] of a [[saw]], Arist.Ph.200b6; of a comb, Antyll. ap. Orib.10.16.2; of a [[cogwheel]], Hero Spir.2.36, Theo. Sm.p.180 H.; [[ploughshare]], LXX 1 Ki.13.21; ὀδοὺς [[πέτρα]]ς = [[peak]], [[pike]], ib.14.4, Ps.77.30.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[second]] [[vertebra]] of the [[neck]] or its [[apophysis]] (the [[odontoid]] [[process]]), so called from its shape, Hp.Epid.2.2.24, cf. Poll.2.131, Gal.UP12.7 (but the [[first]] [[vertebra]] acc. to Hp. ap. Ruf.Onom.154). (Old pres. part. of ''1''.-E. ed- (alternating with od- (cf. Arm. [[utem]] 'I eat') and d-), the root of [[ἔδω]], [[ἔδμεναι]], Lat. [[edo]], etc. : cf. Skt. acc. dántam 'tooth', Lat. [[dens]], Goth. tunpus, etc. : Aeol. ἔδοντες Procl. in Cra.p.39 P., etc.)