ὠδίνω [ῑ],
used by early writers only in present: future ὠδῑνήσω [[ LXX.Hab.3.10 ] LXX]: aorist ὤδῑνα [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 7.561 (Jul.Aeg.), 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.5, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.56d; ὠδίνησα LXX.Psa.7.15:—so ] LXX+3rd c.AD+]aorist middle and passive, ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX.Psa.113(114).7, LXX.Pro.8.25] LXX+2nd c.AD+]:—to have the pains of childbirth, be in travail, ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.269; ὠδίνειν τρομέω· χαλεπὸν βέλος Εἰλειθυίας 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 502, “Ec.” 529, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 395e, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative, to be in travail of a child, bring forth, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1234, LXX.Cant.8.5: of animals, ὠ. νεοττούς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.46: proverbial, ὤδινεν ὄρος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 23. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically of any great pain, to be in travail or anguish, of the Cyclops, στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.415; Κύπριδι “Anthologia Graeca” 7.30 (2nd c.BC: Antipater Sidonius Epigrammaticus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; labour painfully, ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι [[[prev. work] 9.363.22 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus (?)) ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of the mind, to be in the throes or agonies of thought, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148e, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης [[[prev. work] 210b; ὑπὲρ δισσῶν μίαν ὠδίνειν ψυχήν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 258 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε μ᾽ ὠδίνειν τί φῄς what you mean, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 794, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 644 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὠδίνειν εἴς τι to long painfully for a thing, [[ 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.32 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: with infinitive, [[ [prev. author] 2.21, 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 13.38, “Or.” 4.1: with _accusative_, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 10.31; ἔξοδον 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor 42.20 p.517 F.-R. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]