κριός

See also: Κριός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Traditionally connected with κέρας (kéras, “horn”). The chickpea meaning possibly relates to Latin cicer (“chickpea”), Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”). Beekes argues for an original meaning of “curved”, comparing Lithuanian kreivas, Old East Slavic кривъ (krivŭ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kriː.ós/ → /kriˈos/ → /kriˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kriː.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kriˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kriˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kriˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kriˈos/

Noun

κρῑός • (krīós) m (genitive κρῑοῦ); second declension

1. ram
   1. battering ram
   2. the constellation Aries

   Synonym: κτίλος (ktílos)

2. sea-monster
3. type of mussel
4. volute (Ionic architecture)
5. type of ship
6. part of an irrigation system
7. type of chickpea

   Hypernym: ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κρῑός; τοῦ κρῑοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρῑός ho krīós	τὼ κρῑώ tṑ krīṓ	οἱ κρῑοί hoi krīoí
Genitive	τοῦ κρῑοῦ toû krīoû	τοῖν κρῑοῖν toîn krīoîn	τῶν κρῑῶν tôn krīôn
Dative	τῷ κρῑῷ tôi krīôi	τοῖν κρῑοῖν toîn krīoîn	τοῖς κρῑοῖς toîs krīoîs
Accusative	τὸν κρῑόν tòn krīón	τὼ κρῑώ tṑ krīṓ	τοὺς κρῑούς toùs krīoús
Vocative	κρῑέ krīé	κρῑώ krīṓ	κρῑοί krīoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κριός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κριός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κριός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κριός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κριός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κριός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• κριός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • battering-ram idem, page 65.
  • engine idem, page 274.
  • ram idem, page 670.
  • wether idem, page 974.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κριός (kriós).

Noun

κριός • (kriós) m (plural κριοί)

1. ram, male sheep
2. battering ram

Declension

Declension of κριός

	singular	plural
nominative	κριός •	κριοί •
genitive	κριού •	κριών •
accusative	κριό •	κριούς •
vocative	κριέ •	κριοί •

Synonyms

• κριάρι n (kriári)

Related terms

• πολιορκητικός κριός m (poliorkitikós kriós, “battering ram”)

Further reading

• κριός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el