κριμνός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κρημνός (krēmnós)
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”). Compare English kermes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krim.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /krimˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /krimˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /krimˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /krimˈnos/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κρῐμνός hē krimnós |
τὼ κρῐμνώ tṑ krimnṓ |
αἱ κρῐμνοί hai krimnoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κρῐμνοῦ tês krimnoû |
τοῖν κρῐμνοῖν toîn krimnoîn |
τῶν κρῐμνῶν tôn krimnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κρῐμνῷ têi krimnôi |
τοῖν κρῐμνοῖν toîn krimnoîn |
ταῖς κρῐμνοῖς taîs krimnoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κρῐμνόν tḕn krimnón |
τὼ κρῐμνώ tṑ krimnṓ |
τᾱ̀ς κρῐμνούς tā̀s krimnoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κρῐμνέ krimné |
κρῐμνώ krimnṓ |
κρῐμνοί krimnoí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κριμνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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