κρόμμυον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρόμυον (krómuon)

Etymology

A similar word for "onion" and "garlic" is found in Proto-West Germanic *hramusō (“onion, garlic”), Proto-Slavic *čermъša (“ramson”) and Middle Irish crim (“garlic”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *kermus- (“wild garlic”). The e-vowel of Celtic and Balto-Slavic is also found in the placename Κρεμμυών (Kremmuṓn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /króm.my.on/ → /ˈkrom.my.on/ → /ˈkro.mi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /króm.my.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.mi.on/

Noun

κρόμμῠον • (krómmŭon) n (genitive κρομμῠ́ου); second declension

1. onion (Allium cepa)
2. (in the plural) onion-market

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρόμμῠον; τοῦ κρομμῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρόμμῠον tò krómmŭon	τὼ κρομμῠ́ω tṑ krommŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρόμμῠᾰ tằ krómmŭă
Genitive	τοῦ κρομμῠ́ου toû krommŭ́ou	τοῖν κρομμῠ́οιν toîn krommŭ́oin	τῶν κρομμῠ́ων tôn krommŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κρομμῠ́ῳ tôi krommŭ́ōi	τοῖν κρομμῠ́οιν toîn krommŭ́oin	τοῖς κρομμῠ́οις toîs krommŭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κρόμμῠον tò krómmŭon	τὼ κρομμῠ́ω tṑ krommŭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κρόμμῠᾰ tằ krómmŭă
Vocative	κρόμμῠον krómmŭon	κρομμῠ́ω krommŭ́ō	κρόμμῠᾰ krómmŭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)
• κρομμύδιον (krommúdion)
• κρομμυογήτειον (krommuogḗteion)
• κρομμυοξυρεγμία (krommuoxuregmía)
• κρομμυοπώλης (krommuopṓlēs)
• κρομμυοπώλιον (krommuopṓlion)
• κρομμύφακον (krommúphakon)

Descendants

• > Tsakonian: κρέμμου (krémmou), κρέμμυ (krémmy) (inherited)
• → Laz: კრომი (ǩromi)

Further reading

• “κρόμμυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρόμμυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρόμμυον 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