χόνδρος

Maybe with dissimilatory elision from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ- (“to grind, crush”) (see *gʰer-), the same root of Proto-Germanic *grindaną (“to grind”) and Latin frendō (“I gnash”), +‎ -ρος (-ros). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.

χόνδρος • (khóndros) m (genitive χόνδρου); second declension

1. A small rounded mass: lump
2. grain, groat, corn, spelt
3. cartilage

• → Arabic: خَنْدَرِيس (ḵandarīs)
• → English: chondro-
• → Greek: χόνδρος (chóndros)

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόνδρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1643
• “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χόνδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • grain idem, page 369.
  • gristle idem, page 374.
  • gruel idem, page 376.
  • pap idem, page 591.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “groat, cartilage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxon.ðɾos/

χόνδρος • (chóndros) m (plural χόνδροι)

1. (anatomy) cartilage, gristle, cartilaginous skeletal material
2. groats

• χονδρικός (chondrikós, “cartilaginous”)

• χόνδρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el