Oedipus

See also: Œdipus, Ödipus, and Ødipus

English

Alternative forms

• Œdipus (archaic)

Etymology

From the Latin Oedipus, from the Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, “swollen foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪpəs/, /ˈiːdɪpəs/

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Proper noun

Oedipus

1. (Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.

Derived terms

• Oedipus complex
• Oedipal (adjective)

Translations

son of Laius and Jocasta

• Afrikaans: Oidipus
• Albanian: Edipi m
• Armenian: Էդիպոս (hy) (Ēdipos), Էդիպուս (Ēdipus)
• Asturian: Edipu m
• Azerbaijani: Edip
• Bashkir: Эдип (Edip)
• Basque: Edipo
• Bavarian: Edipus m
• Belarusian: Эдып m (Edyp)
• Breton: Oidipoüs m
• Bulgarian: Едип m (Edip)
• Catalan: Èdip m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俄狄浦斯 (zh) (Édípǔsī)

• Czech: Oidipus m
• Danish: Ødipus c
• Esperanto: Edipo (eo)
• Finnish: Oidipus (fi)
• French: Œdipe (fr) m

  Old French: Edipus m

• Galician: Edipo m
• Georgian: ოიდიპოსი (oidiṗosi)
• German: Ödipus (de) m
• Greek: Οιδίπους (el) m (Oidípous)

  Ancient: Οἰδίπους m (Oidípous)

• Hindi: ईदिपस (īdipas)
• Hungarian: Oidipusz
• Icelandic: Ödípús m
• Ido: Edipus (io)
• Indonesian: Oidipus
• Irish: Éideapús m
• Italian: Edipo (it) m
• Japanese: エディプス (Edipusu), オイディプース (oidipūsu)
• Kannada: ಈಡಿಪಸ್ (īḍipas)
• Korean: 오이디푸스 (Oidipuseu)
• Latin: Oedipus m
• Latvian: Edips m
• Lithuanian: Edipas m
• Luxembourgish: Ödipus m
• Macedonian: Едип m (Edip)
• Malagasy: Œdipe
• Malayalam: ഈഡിപ്പസ് (īḍippasŭ)
• Marathi: ईडिपस m (īḍipas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Ødipus m, Oidipus m

  Nynorsk: Ødipus m, Oidipus m

• Occitan: Edip m
• Polish: Edyp m
• Portuguese: Édipo m
• Punjabi: ਈਡੀਪਸ (īḍīpas)
• Romanian: Oedip m
• Russian: Эди́п (ru) m (Edíp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ѐдип m

  Roman: Èdip (sh) m

• Sicilian: Edipu m
• Sinhalese: ඊඩිපස් (īḍipas)
• Slovak: Oidipus m, Oidipous m, Oidipús m
• Slovene: Ojdip m
• Spanish: Edipo (es) m
• Swedish: Oidipus (sv) c
• Tagalog: Edipo, Oedipus
• Thai: อีดิปัส (Aydìbpùt), ออยดิปุส (Oidìbpùt)
• Ukrainian: Едіп m (Edip), Едип m (Edyp)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Эдип (Edip)

  Roman: Edip

• Vietnamese: Ê-đíp
• Yiddish: עדיפּוס m (edipus)

Anagrams

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Œdipūs, Œdipus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous, apparently from οἰδάω (oidáō, “to swell”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoe̯.dɪ.puːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.d̪i.pus]

Proper noun

Oedipūs or Oedipus m sg (genitive Oedipodos or Oedipodis or Oedipī); variously declined, third declension, second declension

1. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant) or third-declension noun or second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Oedipūs Oedipus
genitive	Oedipodos Oedipodis Oedipī
dative	Oedipodī Oedipō
accusative	Oedipoda Oedipodem Oedipum
ablative	Oedipode Oedipō
vocative	Oedipūs Oedipe

References

• “Oedipus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Oedipus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Oedipus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Oedipūs” on page 1365/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)