Χρεμέτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”), the same root of χρόμος (khrómos, “crashing sound”) and χρόμαδος (khrómados, “fragor”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰre.mé.tɛːs/ → /xreˈme.tis/ → /xreˈme.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰre.mé.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰreˈme.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xreˈme.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xreˈme.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xreˈme.tis/

Proper noun

Χρεμέτης • (Khremétēs) m (genitive Χρεμέτου); first declension

1. Chremetes, a river of Libya mentioned by Aristotle

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Χρμέτης; τοῦ Χρμέτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Χρμέτης ho Khrmétēs
Genitive	τοῦ Χρμέτου toû Khrmétou
Dative	τῷ Χρμέτῃ tôi Khrmétēi
Accusative	τὸν Χρμέτην tòn Khrmétēn
Vocative	Χρμέτᾰ Khrméta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Chremetēs

Further reading

• Χρεμέτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χρεμετίζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1647