Κροῖσος

See also: Κροίσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Lydian. Proposals for origin include:

  • *Krowisas, from *Karos (proper name) + *-w- (semivowel) + *isas (“master, lord, noble”),[1]
  • *Karošiš (“one of grace, the generous one”).[2]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Κροῖσος • (Kroîsos) m (genitive Κροίσου); second declension

  1. Croesus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κροῖσος; τοῦ Κροίσου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Κροῖσος
ho Kroîsos
Genitive τοῦ Κροίσου
toû Kroísou
Dative τῷ Κροίσῳ
tōî Kroísōi
Accusative τὸν Κροῖσον
tòn Kroîson
Vocative Κροῖσε
Kroîse
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Κροίσος (Kroísos)
  • → Latin: Croesus
  • → Old Armenian: Կրիւսոս (Kriwsos)

References

  1. ^ Kearns, J.M. (1997) “A Lydian Etymology for the Name of Croesus”, in Disterheft, Dorothy, Huld, Martin E., Greppin, John A.C., Polomé, Edgar C., editors, Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel-Part One: Ancient Languages and Philology, Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, →ISBN, pages 23-28
  2. ^ Garnier, Romain, Sagot, Benoît (2018) “New results on a centum substratum in Greek: the Lydian connection”, in International Colloquium on Loanwords and Substrata in Indo-European languages, Jun 2018, Limoges, France‎[1], pages 169-200

Further reading

  • “Κροῖσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
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