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ὀδούς

odous · ὁ

tooth, incisors, molars

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ὀδούς · odous — LSJ

tooth, incisors, molars

tooth, Il. 5.74, al. ; ἕρκος ὀδόντων, v. ἕρκος ; πρίειν ὀδόντας, v. πρίω ; ὀ. ὀξεῖς incisors, opp. πλατεῖς, molars, Arist. PA 661b8, al.

2 tooth

metaph., γλυκὺς ὀ. ὁ τοῦ πόθου Luc. Am. 3 ; ὁ τῆς λύπης ὀ. the tooth of grief, Ach.Tat. l.c.

II anything pointed, sharp, tooth, prong, spike, teeth, cog, ploughshare, peak, pike

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 cog-wheel, Hero Spir. 2.36, Theo. Sm. p.180 H. ; ploughshare, LXX 1 Ki. 13.21 ; ὀ. πέτρας peak, pike, ib. 14.4, Ps. 77.30.

III second vertebra, first vertebra

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. UP 12.7 (but the first vertebra acc. to Hp. ap. Ruf. Onom. 154). (Old pres. part. of I.-E. ed- (alternating with od- (cf. Arm. utem ‘I eatʼ) and d-), the root of ἔδω, ἔδ-μεναι, Lat. edo, etc. : cf. Skt. acc. dántam ‘tooth’, Lat. dens, Goth. tunþus, etc. : Aeol. ἔδοντες Procl. in Cra. p.39 P., etc.)

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