κρίγδανον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek, due to the presence of the cluster -γδ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriɣ.ða.non/ → /ˈkriɣ.ða.non/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkriɡ.da.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkriɣ.ða.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkriɣ.ða.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkriɣ.ða.non/

Noun

κρίγδανον • (krígdanon)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: πέλτη (péltē, “Thracian shield”), ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”).

References

• “κρίγδανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ