ὠδῖνας (odinas)

ὠδῖνας is an Ancient Greek form of ὠδίς, meaning “birth pang”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Ἐπιγράμματα 24.87: ὧδέ ἑ δυστοκέουσα κακὰς ὠδῖνας ἀνέτλην.

Plutarch, De esu carnium II 1: … ερ ὁ Κάτων ἔφησε, λέγειν πρὸς γαστέρας ὦτα μὴ ἐχούσας· καὶ πέποται ὁ τῆς συνηθείας κυκεών, ὥσπερ ὁ τῆς Κίρκης ὠδίνας ὀδύνας κυκεὼν ἀπάτας τε γόους τε· καὶ τὸ ἄγκιστρον ἐκβάλλειν τῆς σαρκοφαγίας ὡς ἐμπεπηγμένον τῇ φιληδονίᾳ καὶ …

All forms of ὠδίς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.