κραῦρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Pre-Greek variant of κράμβος (krámbos, “dry; loud, ringing”), with interchange ϝ/β and prenasalization.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krâu̯.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkraw.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkra.βros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkra.vros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkra.vros/
Adjective
κραῦρος • (kraûros) m (feminine κραύρᾱ, neuter κραῦρον); first/second declension
- brittle, friable, fragile
Inflection
First and second declension of κραῦρος; κραύρᾱ; κραῦρον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | κραῦρος kraûros | κραύρᾱ kraúrā | κραῦρον kraûron | κραύρω kraúrō | κραύρᾱ kraúrā | κραύρω kraúrō | κραῦροι kraûroi | κραῦραι kraûrai | κραῦρᾰ kraûra | |||||
Genitive | κραύρου kraúrou | κραύρᾱς kraúrās | κραύρου kraúrou | κραύροιν kraúroin | κραύραιν kraúrain | κραύροιν kraúroin | κραύρων kraúrōn | κραύρων kraúrōn | κραύρων kraúrōn | |||||
Dative | κραύρῳ kraúrōi | κραύρᾳ kraúrāi | κραύρῳ kraúrōi | κραύροιν kraúroin | κραύραιν kraúrain | κραύροιν kraúroin | κραύροις kraúrois | κραύραις kraúrais | κραύροις kraúrois | |||||
Accusative | κραῦρον kraûron | κραύρᾱν kraúrān | κραῦρον kraûron | κραύρω kraúrō | κραύρᾱ kraúrā | κραύρω kraúrō | κραύρους kraúrous | κραύρᾱς kraúrās | κραῦρᾰ kraûra | |||||
Vocative | κραῦρε kraûre | κραύρᾱ kraúrā | κραῦρον kraûron | κραύρω kraúrō | κραύρᾱ kraúrā | κραύρω kraúrō | κραῦροι kraûroi | κραῦραι kraûrai | κραῦρᾰ kraûra | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
κραύρως kraúrōs | κραυρότερος krauróteros | κραυρότᾰτος kraurótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κραυράω (krauráō)
- κραυρόομαι (krauróomai)
- κραυρότης (kraurótēs)
- κραῦρα (kraûra)
Further reading
- κραῦρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κραῦρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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