ἐδωδή

Ancient Greek

From the root of ἔδω (édō, “to eat”).^[1]

ἐδωδή • (edōdḗ) f (genitive ἐδωδῆς); first declension

food, meat, victuals
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.167
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.70
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 782e
fodder for cattle
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.504
bait for fish
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 21.43

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐδωδή hē edōdḗ	τὼ ἐδωδᾱ́ tṑ edōdā́	αἱ ἐδωδαί hai edōdaí
Genitive	τῆς ἐδωδῆς tês edōdês	τοῖν ἐδωδαῖν toîn edōdaîn	τῶν ἐδωδῶν tôn edōdôn
Dative	τῇ ἐδωδῇ têi edōdêi	τοῖν ἐδωδαῖν toîn edōdaîn	ταῖς ἐδωδαῖς taîs edōdaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἐδωδήν tḕn edōdḗn	τὼ ἐδωδᾱ́ tṑ edōdā́	τᾱ̀ς ἐδωδᾱ́ς tā̀s edōdā́s
Vocative	ἐδωδή edōdḗ	ἐδωδᾱ́ edōdā́	ἐδωδαί edōdaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔδω (> DER > ἐδωδή)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 375

“ἐδωδή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐδωδή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐδωδή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἐδωδή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
“ἐδωδή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ἐδωδή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- eating idem, page 260.
- food idem, page 333.