ὀδούς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=όντος, ὁ, nom. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ὀδούς <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1161b23</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ki.</span>14.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Musc.Enc.</span>3</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.5.12.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VA</span>2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.7.4</span>; Ion. ὀδών <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.107</span> (bis), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>4.19</span>,<span class="bibl">52</span>, cf. Hdn.Gr.<span class="bibl">2.928</span> :—<b class="b2">tooth</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.5.74</span>, al. ; <b class="b3">ἕρκος ὀδόντων</b>, v. [[ἕρκος]] ; <b class="b3">πρίειν ὀδόντας</b>, v. [[πρίω]] ; <b class="b3">ὀ. ὀξεῖς</b> <b class="b2">incisors</b>, opp. <b class="b3">πλατεῖς</b>, <b class="b2">molars</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>661b8</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> metaph., γλυκὺς ὀ. ὁ τοῦ πόθου <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Am.</span>3</span> ; <b class="b3">ὁ τῆς λύπης ὀ</b>. the <b class="b2">tooth</b> of grief, Ach.Tat. l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">anything pointed</b> or <b class="b2">sharp, tooth, prong, spike</b>, etc., <span class="bibl">Nic. <span class="title">Th.</span>85</span> : pl., <b class="b2">teeth</b> of a saw, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ph.</span>200b6</span> ; of a comb, Antyll. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.10.16.2</span> ; of a <b class="b2">cog</b>-wheel, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Spir.</span>2.36</span>, Theo. Sm.<span class="bibl">p.180</span> H. ; <b class="b2">ploughshare</b>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ki.</span>13.21</span> ; <b class="b3">ὀ. πέτρας</b> <b class="b2">peak, pike</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">14.4</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ps.</span>77.30</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">second vertebra</b> of the neck or its apophysis (the odontoid process), so called from its shape, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>2.2.24</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Poll.2.131</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>12.7</span> (but the <b class="b2">first vertebra</b> acc. to Hp. ap. <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Onom.</span>154</span>). (Old pres. part. of <span class="bibl">1</span>.-E. <b class="b2">ed-</b> (alternating with <b class="b2">od-</b> (cf. Arm. <b class="b2">utem</b> 'I eat') and <b class="b2">d-</b>), the root of <b class="b3">ἔδω, ἔδ-μεναι</b>, Lat. <b class="b2">edo</b>, etc. : cf. Skt. acc. <b class="b2">dántam</b> 'tooth', Lat. <b class="b2">dens</b>, Goth. <b class="b2">tunpus</b>, etc. : Aeol. ἔδοντες <span class="bibl">Procl. <span class="title">in Cra.</span>p.39</span> P., etc.)</span>