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

 

• IPA^(key): /krim.nós/ → /krimˈnos/ → /krimˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krim.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /krimˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /krimˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /krimˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /krimˈnos/

Noun

κρῐμνός • (krimnós) f (genitive κρῐμνοῦ); second declension

1. kind of purple dye

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ κρῐμνός; τῆς κρῐμνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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	τοῖν κρῐμνοῖν toîn krimnoîn	ταῖς κρῐμνοῖς taîs krimnoîs
Accusative	τὴν κρῐμνόν tḕn krimnón	τὼ κρῐμνώ tṑ krimnṓ	τᾱ̀ς κρῐμνούς tā̀s krimnoús
Vocative	κρῐμνέ krimné	κρῐμνώ krimnṓ	κρῐμνοί krimnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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