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See also: Œdipus, Ödipus, and Ødipus

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:OedipusWikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • Œdipus (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛdɪpəs/, /ˈiːdɪpəs/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

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Oedipus

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

Derived terms

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  • Oedipus complex
  • Oedipal (adjective)

Translations

[edit] 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 (mg)
  • 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

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Alternative forms

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  • Œdipūs, Œdipus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈoe̯.dɪ.puːs], [ˈoe̯.dɪ.pʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.di.pus]

Proper noun

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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

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

singular
nominative OedipūsOedipus
genitive OedipodosOedipodisOedipī
dative OedipodīOedipō
accusative OedipodaOedipodemOedipum
ablative OedipodeOedipō
vocative OedipūsOedipe

References

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  • “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)

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