ὀδούς

ὀδούς, όντος, ὁ, nom. ὀδούς Arist. EN 1161b23, LXX 1 Ki. 14.4, Luc. Musc.Enc. 3, Paus. 5.12.2, Philostr. VA 2.13, Ach.Tat. 7.4; Ion. ὀδών Hdt. 6.107 (bis), Hp. Epid. 4.19,52, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.928 :—A. tooth, Il. 5.74, al. ; ἕρκος ὀδόντων, v. ἕρκος ; πρίειν ὀδόντας, v. πρίω ; ὀ. ὀξεῖς incisors, opp. πλατεῖς, molars, Arist. PA 661b8, al. 2. metaph., γλυκὺς ὀ. ὁ τοῦ πόθου Luc. Am. 3 ; ὁ τῆς λύπης ὀ. the tooth of grief, Ach.Tat. l.c. II. 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 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. od- (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. tunpus, etc. : Aeol. ἔδοντες Procl. in Cra.p.39 P., etc.)