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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.de.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.de.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðe.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðe.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ðe.ros/
Noun
ὕδερος • (húderos) m (genitive ὑδέρου); second declension
- (pathology) dropsy
- Synonym: ὕδρωψ (húdrōps)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὕδερος; τοῦ ὑδέρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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