κρόκος
See also: κροκός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Semitic loanword. Compare Akkadian [script needed] (kurkanū), Arabic كُرْكُم (kúrkum), and Hebrew Hebrew כרכום (karkom).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kró.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kos/
Noun
κρόκος • (krókos) m (genitive κρόκου); second declension
- saffron, Crocus sativus
- saffron (dye)
- yolk (of an egg)
- Antonym: λευκόν (leukón)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κρόκος ho krókos |
τὼ κρόκω tṑ krókō |
οἱ κρόκοι hoi krókoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κρόκου toû krókou |
τοῖν κρόκοιν toîn krókoin |
τῶν κρόκων tôn krókōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κρόκῳ tôi krókōi |
τοῖν κρόκοιν toîn krókoin |
τοῖς κρόκοις toîs krókois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κρόκον tòn krókon |
τὼ κρόκω tṑ krókō |
τοὺς κρόκους toùs krókous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κρόκε króke |
κρόκω krókō |
κρόκοι krókoi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- κρόκος λευκός (krókos leukós, “Crocus cancellatus”)
- κρόκος ἀκανθώδης (krókos akanthṓdēs, “safflower”)
Descendants
Further reading
- κρόκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κρόκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρόκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κρόκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κρόκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- κρόκος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Alternative forms
- κροκός m (krokós)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos).
Noun
κρόκος • (krókos) m (plural κρόκοι)
Declension
Synonyms
- (saffron): ζαφορά f (zaforá)
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