ὀδούς, όντος, ὁ,
nominative ὀδούς [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1161b23, LXX.1Ki.14.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Musc.Enc.” 3, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.12.2, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.13, 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 7.4 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ὀδών [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.107 (bis), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.19, 52, cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.928 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—tooth, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.74, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἕρκος ὀδόντων, see at {ἕρκος}; πρίειν ὀδόντας, see at {πρίω}; ὀ. ὀξεῖς incisors, opposed to πλατεῖς, molars, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 661b8, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, γλυκὺς ὀ. ὁ τοῦ πόθου [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὁ τῆς λύπης ὀ. the tooth of grief, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus [prev. cited] ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II anything pointed or sharp, tooth, prong, spike, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 85 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: plural, teeth of a saw, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 200b6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a comb, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.16.2 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of a cog-wheel, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “(Spiritalia) Pneumatica” 2.36, Theo. Sm. p.180 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] H.; ploughshare, [[ LXX.1Ki.13.21 ] LXX]; ὀ. πέτρας peak, pike,[[ [prev. work] 14.4, LXX.Psa.77.30. ] LXX]
__III second vertebra of the neck or its apophysis (the odontoid process), so called from its shape, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.2.24, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.131, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 12.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (but the first vertebra accusative to [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 154)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Old present participle [[ of 1.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] ed- (alternating with od- (cf. Armenian utem 'I eat') and d-), the root of ἔδω, ἔδ-μεναι, Latin edo, etc.: cf. Sanskrit accusative dántam 'tooth', Latin dens, Gothic tunpus, etc.: Aeolic dialect ἔδοντες [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Cratylum commentaria” p.39 P., etc.) ] Refs 5th c.AD+]