κρήγυος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κρᾱ́γῠος (krā́guos) – Doric
Etymology
Pre-Greek.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krɛ̌ː.ɡy.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkre̝.ɡy.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkri.ʝy.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkri.ʝy.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkri.ʝi.os/
Adjective
κρήγῠος • (krḗguos) m or f (neuter κρήγῠον); second declension
- good, useful, agreeable
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.106
- Palatine Anthology 7.284
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, The Coan Praenotions 31
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 935
- Lysis
- (by a misunderstanding of Homer) true, real
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 20.19
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Ep. 17
- Palatine Anthology 7.648
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 3.28.21
- (of persons) good, serviceable
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Alc. 1.111e
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Epigrams 19
- Palatine Anthology 7.355
- (of a woman) honest
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 4.46, 6.39
Declension
Second declension of κρήγῠος; κρήγῠον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | κρήγῠος krḗguos | κρήγῠον krḗguon | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρήγῠοι krḗguoi | κρήγῠᾰ krḗgua | ||||||||
Genitive | κρηγῠ́ου krēgúou | κρηγῠ́ου krēgúou | κρηγῠ́οιν krēgúoin | κρηγῠ́οιν krēgúoin | κρηγῠ́ων krēgúōn | κρηγῠ́ων krēgúōn | ||||||||
Dative | κρηγῠ́ῳ krēgúōi | κρηγῠ́ῳ krēgúōi | κρηγῠ́οιν krēgúoin | κρηγῠ́οιν krēgúoin | κρηγῠ́οις krēgúois | κρηγῠ́οις krēgúois | ||||||||
Accusative | κρήγῠον krḗguon | κρήγῠον krḗguon | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρηγῠ́ους krēgúous | κρήγῠᾰ krḗgua | ||||||||
Vocative | κρήγῠε krḗgue | κρήγῠον krḗguon | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρηγῠ́ω krēgúō | κρήγῠοι krḗguoi | κρήγῠᾰ krḗgua | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
κρηγῠ́ως krēgúōs | κρηγῠώτερος krēguṓteros | κρηγῠώτᾰτος krēguṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κρηγῠ́ως (krēgúōs)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κρήγυος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 776
Further reading
- “κρήγυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρήγυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κρήγυος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κρήγυος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κρήγυος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963