κροκύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρέκω (krékō, “weave”, verb).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kro.kýs/ → /kroˈcys/ → /kroˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kro.kýs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kroˈkys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kroˈcys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kroˈcys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kroˈcis/

Noun

κροκῠ́ς • (krokús) f (genitive κροκῠ́δος, diminutive κροκῠ́δῐον); third declension

1. a flock or nap on woollen cloth, a piece of wool

   Synonym: κρόκη f (krókē)

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.8
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Runaways 28
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 4
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sulla 35
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 2.3:

     κροκύδα ἀφαιρεῖν

     krokúda aphaireîn

     typical of a flatterer

   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 651, (metaphorically):

     ἀνήσω κροκύδα μαστιγουμένη

     anḗsō krokúda mastigouménē

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κροκῠ́ς; τῆς κροκῠ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κροκῠ́ς hē krokús	τὼ κροκῠ́δε tṑ krokúde	αἱ κροκῠ́δες hai krokúdes
Genitive	τῆς κροκῠ́δος tês krokúdos	τοῖν κροκῠ́δοιν toîn krokúdoin	τῶν κροκῠ́δων tôn krokúdōn
Dative	τῇ κροκῠ́δῐ têi krokúdi	τοῖν κροκῠ́δοιν toîn krokúdoin	ταῖς κροκῠ́σῐ / κροκῠ́σῐν taîs krokúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κροκῠ́δᾰ tḕn krokúda	τὼ κροκῠ́δε tṑ krokúde	τᾱ̀ς κροκῠ́δᾰς tā̀s krokúdas
Vocative	κροκῠ́ς krokús	κροκῠ́δε krokúde	κροκῠ́δες krokúdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κροκῠδῐ́ζω (krokudízō, “pick loose flocks off a garment”, verb)
• κροκῠδῐσμός m (krokudismós, “picking of flocks”, noun)
• κροκῠδολογέω (krokudologéō, “pick loose flocks off a garment”, verb)
• κροκῠ̀ς ἑδρῐκή f (krokùs hedrikḗ, “suppository”, noun)

 

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Crocidura
• ⇒ English: crocidolite
• Greek: κροκύδα (krokýda)

Further reading

• “κροκύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κροκύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette