Οἰδίπους

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Οἰδῐπόδης (Oidipódēs) — Epic

Etymology

Literally, “with a swollen foot”, showing the regular Caland system change */ro/ → */i/, as if from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oydros, whence also Old High German eittar (“pus”), + πούς (poús, “foot”). Compare οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), from the same root.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oi̯.dí.puːs/ → /yˈði.pus/ → /iˈði.pus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oi̯.dí.puːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /yˈdi.pus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈði.pus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈði.pus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈði.pus/

Proper noun

Οἰδῐ́πους • (Oidípous) m (genitive Οἰδῐ́ποδος); third declension

1. Oedipus

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Οἰδῐ́πους; τοῦ Οἰδῐ́ποδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Οἰδῐ́πους ho Oidípous
Genitive	τοῦ Οἰδῐ́ποδος toû Oidípodos
Dative	τῷ Οἰδῐ́ποδῐ tôi Oidípodi
Accusative	τὸν Οἰδῐ́πουν / Οἰδῐ́ποδᾰ tòn Oidípoun / Oidípoda
Vocative	Οἰδῐ́που Oidípou
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

In verse, the genitive singular is Οἰδῐ́που (Oidípou).

Descendants

• Greek: Οιδίπους (Oidípous), Οιδίποδας (Oidípodas)
• → Latin: Oedipūs

References

• “Οἰδίπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Οἰδίπους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1054