κρῆθμον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown, but probably a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krɛ̂ːtʰ.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkre̝tʰ.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/
Noun
κρῆθμον • (krêthmon) n (genitive κρήθμου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κρῆθμον tò krêthmon |
τὼ κρήθμω tṑ krḗthmō |
τᾰ̀ κρῆθμᾰ tằ krêthmă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κρήθμου toû krḗthmou |
τοῖν κρήθμοιν toîn krḗthmoin |
τῶν κρήθμων tôn krḗthmōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κρήθμῳ tōî krḗthmōi |
τοῖν κρήθμοιν toîn krḗthmoin |
τοῖς κρήθμοις toîs krḗthmois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κρῆθμον tò krêthmon |
τὼ κρήθμω tṑ krḗthmō |
τᾰ̀ κρῆθμᾰ tằ krêthmă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κρῆθμον krêthmon |
κρήθμω krḗthmō |
κρῆθμᾰ krêthmă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: crēthmos
Further reading
- “κρῆθμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κρῆθμον 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, →ISBN