Oedipus

• Œdipus (archaic)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdɪpəs/, /ˈiːdɪpəs/

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Oedipus

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

• Oedipus complex
• Oedipal (adjective)

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• Œdipūs, Œdipus

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

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

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.

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

• “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)