ὁδός

• οὐδός (oudós) — Epic, rare

From Proto-Hellenic *hodós, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *sodós (“course”), which is traditionally derived from *sed- (“to sit”) and directly cognate with Proto-Slavic *xodъ (“motion; passage”), with more distant cognates including Sanskrit साद (sādá, “a sitting, riding, motion”); however, this has been disputed.^[1] This would make it one of the oldest -ός (-ós) deverbals in Greek.

For the putative semantic development, compare English set out from the same root, as well as road from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“ride, journey”).

ὁδός • (hodós) f (genitive ὁδοῦ); second declension

1. road; path; way

   Synonym: οὔθα (oútha)

2. travelling; journeying
3. journey; trip; expedition
4. the way, means, or manner to some end
5. manner of doing (something)
6. method
7. system
8. (Koine) the Way (Christianity)

• ὁδός (hodós) is distinct from ὀδός (odós, “threshold”) in Attic, though both occur as οὐδός (oudós) in Homer.

• → English: hodo-, odo-, -ode
• → Greek: οδός (odós, “street, way”) (learned)

• “ὁδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁδός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὁδός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὁδός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὁδός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὁδός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3598 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὁδός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • carriage-road idem, page 115.
  • channel idem, page 124.
  • coming idem, page 146.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • distance idem, page 240.
  • fashion idem, page 308.
  • going idem, page 365.
  • journey idem, page 464.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • manner idem, page 512.
  • march idem, page 513.
  • method idem, page 527.
  • orbit idem, page 578.
  • passage idem, page 597.
  • path idem, page 598.
  • peregrination idem, page 607.
  • pilgrimage idem, page 613.
  • ramble idem, page 670.
  • ride idem, page 713.
  • road idem, page 718.
  • start idem, page 811.
  • street idem, page 824.
  • thoroughfare idem, page 868.
  • track idem, page 885.
  • travel idem, page 890.
  • waggon idem, page 959.
  • walk idem, page 960.
  • way idem, page 968.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 884
• ὁδός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011