ποδάγρα

Etymology

πούς (poús, “foot”) +‎ ἄγρᾱ (ágrā, “hunting”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ποδᾰ́γρᾱ • (podágrā) f (genitive ποδᾰ́γρᾱς); first declension

1. trap for the feet
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.28.
   • Palatine Anthology 6.296
   • Oppian, Cynegetica 1.156
2. (of dogs, oxen, horses) foot disease
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.Κεφάλαιο 22
     • Aristotle, History of Animals 8.Κεφάλαιο 23
     • Aristotle, History of Animals 8.Κεφάλαιο 24
3. (of human beings) gout of the foot
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, 1 104
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.22.40
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.30
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 15.1.43

References

• ποδάγρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ποδάγρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ποδάγρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ποδᾰ́γρᾱ (podágrā, “trap for the feet”, “a foot disease of dogs, oxen, and horses”, of human beings “gout”), from πούς (poús, “foot”) +‎ ἄγρᾱ (ágrā, “hunting”).

Noun

ποδάγρα • (podágra) f (plural ποδάγρες)

1. gout, podagra

Further reading

• Ουρική αρθρίτιδα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el