κρωσσός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The element "-σσ-", as well as the technical meaning, points to a Pre-Greek origin. Previously the word has been compared with Old English crocca (“crock”), Dutch kruik (“jug”) and Middle Irish croccán. Note also Old Armenian կարաս (karas).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɔːs.sós/ → /krosˈsos/ → /kroˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɔːs.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kroˈsos/

Noun

κρωσσός • (krōssós) m (genitive κρωσσοῦ); second declension

1. water pail, pitcher
2. cinerary urn

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κρωσσός; τοῦ κρωσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρωσσός ho krōssós	τὼ κρωσσώ tṑ krōssṓ	οἱ κρωσσοί hoi krōssoí
Genitive	τοῦ κρωσσοῦ toû krōssoû	τοῖν κρωσσοῖν toîn krōssoîn	τῶν κρωσσῶν tôn krōssôn
Dative	τῷ κρωσσῷ tôi krōssôi	τοῖν κρωσσοῖν toîn krōssoîn	τοῖς κρωσσοῖς toîs krōssoîs
Accusative	τὸν κρωσσόν tòn krōssón	τὼ κρωσσώ tṑ krōssṓ	τοὺς κρωσσούς toùs krōssoús
Vocative	κρωσσέ krōssé	κρωσσώ krōssṓ	κρωσσοί krōssoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρωσσίον (krōssíon)

References

• “κρωσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρωσσός 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, →ISBN