ὁδός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• οὐδός (Homeric) (used only once in Odyssey)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sodos. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic ходъ (xodŭ) and Sanskrit आसद् (āsad).

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /hodós/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /hodós/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /oðós/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /oðós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /oðós/

Noun

ὁδός (genitive ὁδοῦ) f, second declension; (hodos)

1. threshold
2. road, path, way
3. journey, trip, expedition
4. The way, means, or manner to some end, method

Inflection

Second declension of ὁδός, ὁδοῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁδός	ὁδώ	ὁδοί
Genitive	ὁδοῦ	ὁδοῖν	ὁδῶν
Dative	ὁδῷ	ὁδοῖν	ὁδοῖς
Accusative	ὁδόν	ὁδώ	ὁδούς
Vocative	ὁδέ	ὁδώ	ὁδοί

Descendants

• Greek: οδός (odós, “street, way”)
• Greek: ουδός (oudós, “limen, threshold”)

References

• LSJ
• BDAG
• Strong’s concordance number: G3598