κρημνός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally considered an old verbal noun from κρεμάννυμι (kremánnumi, “to hang”), however Beekes finds this impossible and leaves the etymology unexplained.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

κρημνός • (krēmnós) m (genitive κρημνοῦ); second declension

overhanging bank of a river; edge of a trench
beetling cliff, crag
(in the plural) (medicine) edges of an ulcer
(anatomy) labia

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κρημνός; τοῦ κρημνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρημνός ho krēmnós	τὼ κρημνώ tṑ krēmnṓ	οἱ κρημνοί hoi krēmnoí
Genitive	τοῦ κρημνοῦ toû krēmnoû	τοῖν κρημνοῖν toîn krēmnoîn	τῶν κρημνῶν tôn krēmnôn
Dative	τῷ κρημνῷ tôi krēmnôi	τοῖν κρημνοῖν toîn krēmnoîn	τοῖς κρημνοῖς toîs krēmnoîs
Accusative	τὸν κρημνόν tòn krēmnón	τὼ κρημνώ tṑ krēmnṓ	τοὺς κρημνούς toùs krēmnoús
Vocative	κρημνέ krēmné	κρημνώ krēmnṓ	κρημνοί krēmnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀπόκρημνος (apókrēmnos)
βαθύκρημνος (bathúkrēmnos)
κρημνίζω (krēmnízō)
κρήμνισις (krḗmnisis)
κρημνισμός (krēmnismós)
κρημνοφοβέομαι (krēmnophobéomai)
κρημνώδης (krēmnṓdēs)

References

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

Greek

Noun

κρημνός • (krimnós) m (plural κρημνοί)

(scholarly): Alternative form of γκρεμός (gkremós)
(surgery) flap (attached tissue used during plastic surgery)

Declension

declension of κρημνός

	singular	plural
nominative	κρημνός •	κρημνοί •
genitive	κρημνού •	κρημνών •
accusative	κρημνό •	κρημνούς •
vocative	κρημνέ •	κρημνοί •

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