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/
Noun
κρῐμνός • (krimnós) f (genitive κρῐμνοῦ); second declension
- kind of purple dye
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ κρῐμνός; τῆς κρῐμνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | κρῐμνοῖν krimnoîn | ταῖς κρῐμνοῖς taîs krimnoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κρῐμνόν tḕn krimnón | κρῐμνώ 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