ὁδίτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὁδῑ́τᾱς (hodī́tās) — Doric

Etymology

From ὁδός (hodós) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.dǐː.tɛːs/ → /oˈði.tis/ → /oˈði.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.dǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)oˈdi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈði.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈði.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈði.tis/

Noun

ὁδῑ́της • (hodī́tēs) m (genitive ὁδῑ́του); first declension

1. wayfarer, traveler
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.263
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.204
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.127
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.123
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.211
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.274

Declension

First declension of ὁ ὁδῑ́της; τοῦ ὁδῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὁδῑ́της ho hodī́tēs	τὼ ὁδῑ́τᾱ tṑ hodī́tā	οἱ ὁδῖται hoi hodîtai
Genitive	τοῦ ὁδῑ́του toû hodī́tou	τοῖν ὁδῑ́ταιν toîn hodī́tain	τῶν ὁδῑτῶν tôn hodītôn
Dative	τῷ ὁδῑ́τῃ tôi hodī́tēi	τοῖν ὁδῑ́ταιν toîn hodī́tain	τοῖς ὁδῑ́ταις toîs hodī́tais
Accusative	τὸν ὁδῑ́την tòn hodī́tēn	τὼ ὁδῑ́τᾱ tṑ hodī́tā	τοὺς ὁδῑ́τᾱς toùs hodī́tās
Vocative	ὁδῖτᾰ hodîta	ὁδῑ́τᾱ hodī́tā	ὁδῖται hodîtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὁδίτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὁδίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὁδίτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὁδίτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ὁδίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press