ἐδωδή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ἔδω (édō, “to eat”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.dɔː.dɛ̌ː/ → /e.ðoˈði/ → /e.ðoˈði/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.dɔː.dɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.doˈde̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ðoˈði/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ðoˈði/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ðoˈði/

Noun

ἐδωδή • (edōdḗ) f (genitive ἐδωδῆς); first declension

1. food, meat, victuals
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.167
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.70
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 782e
2. fodder for cattle
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.504
3. bait for fish
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.43

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐδωδή; τῆς ἐδωδῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐδωδή hē edōdḗ	τὼ ἐδωδᾱ́ tṑ edōdā́	αἱ ἐδωδαί hai edōdaí
Genitive	τῆς ἐδωδῆς tês edōdês	τοῖν ἐδωδαῖν toîn edōdaîn	τῶν ἐδωδῶν tôn edōdôn
Dative	τῇ ἐδωδῇ têi edōdêi	τοῖν ἐδωδαῖν toîn edōdaîn	ταῖς ἐδωδαῖς taîs edōdaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἐδωδήν tḕn edōdḗn	τὼ ἐδωδᾱ́ tṑ edōdā́	τᾱ̀ς ἐδωδᾱ́ς tā̀s edōdā́s
Vocative	ἐδωδή edōdḗ	ἐδωδᾱ́ edōdā́	ἐδωδαί edōdaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐδωδή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐδωδή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐδωδή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἐδωδή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἐδωδή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἐδωδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • eating idem, page 260.
  • food idem, page 333.