κρήνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • κρᾱ́νᾱ (krā́nā) — Doric
  • κράννᾱ (kránnā) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-neh₂, from *kres- (“spring, fount”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hraznō.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κρήνη • (krḗnē) f (genitive κρήνης); first declension

  1. well, spring, fountain
    Synonyms: κρουνός (krounós), πηγή (pēgḗ), πῖδᾰξ (pîdăx)
  2. (in the plural, poetic) waters

Declension

First declension of ἡ κρήνη; τῆς κρήνης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κρήνη
hē krḗnē 		τὼ κρήνᾱ
tṑ krḗnā 		αἱ κρῆναι
hai krênai
Genitive τῆς κρήνης
tês krḗnēs 		τοῖν κρήναιν
toîn krḗnain 		τῶν κρηνῶν
tôn krēnôn
Dative τῇ κρήνῃ
tēî krḗnēi 		τοῖν κρήναιν
toîn krḗnain 		ταῖς κρήναις
taîs krḗnais
Accusative τὴν κρήνην
tḕn krḗnēn 		τὼ κρήνᾱ
tṑ krḗnā 		τᾱ̀ς κρήνᾱς
tā̀s krḗnās
Vocative κρήνη
krḗnē 		κρήνᾱ
krḗnā 		κρῆναι
krênai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Ἱπποκρήνη (Hippokrḗnē)
  • κρηνάγγη (krēnángē)
  • κρηναῖος (krēnaîos)
  • κρήνηθεν (krḗnēthen)
  • κρηνήϊος (krēnḗïos)
  • κρήνηνδε (krḗnēnde)
  • κρηνιάς (krēniás)
  • κρηνίδιον (krēnídion)
  • κρηνίον (krēníon)
  • κρηνίς (krēnís)
  • κρηνῖτις (krēnîtis)
  • κρηνοῦχος (krēnoûkhos)
  • κρηνοφυλάκιον (krēnophulákion)
  • κρηνοφύλαξ (krēnophúlax)
  • κρηνῶν ἐπιμελητής (krēnôn epimelētḗs)

Descendants

  • → New Latin: creno-

Further reading

  • “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κρήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κρήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κρήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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