ὕδερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”) and cognate with Sanskrit उदर (udara, “belly, abdomen”), Latin uterus (“womb”) and Old Prussian weders (“belly, stomach”). This word must be separated from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), since a full grade ὕδερ- is further unknown in Greek. The semantic shift from "belly" to "dropsy" is unproblematic, since Sanskrit उदर (udara) is also used in the sense of "pathologically swollen belly".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.de.ros/ → /ˈy.ðe.ros/ → /ˈi.ðe.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.de.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.de.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðe.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðe.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðe.ros/

Noun

ὕδερος • (húderos) m (genitive ὑδέρου); second declension

1. (pathology) dropsy

   Synonym: ὕδρωψ (húdrōps)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὕδερος; τοῦ ὑδέρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὕδερος ho húderos	τὼ ὑδέρω tṑ hudérō	οἱ ὕδεροι hoi húderoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὑδέρου toû hudérou	τοῖν ὑδέροιν toîn hudéroin	τῶν ὑδέρων tôn hudérōn
Dative	τῷ ὑδέρῳ tôi hudérōi	τοῖν ὑδέροιν toîn hudéroin	τοῖς ὑδέροις toîs hudérois
Accusative	τὸν ὕδερον tòn húderon	τὼ ὑδέρω tṑ hudérō	τοὺς ὑδέρους toùs hudérous
Vocative	ὕδερε húdere	ὑδέρω hudérō	ὕδεροι húderoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑδεραίνω (huderaínō)
• ὑδερίασις (huderíasis)
• ὑδεριάω (huderiáō)
• ὑδερικός (huderikós)
• ὑδερόομαι (huderóomai)
• ὑδερώδης (huderṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “ὕδερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕδερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN