κρόμμυον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρόμυον (krómuon)

Etymology

A similar word for "onion" and "garlic" is found in Proto-West Germanic *hramusō (“onion, garlic”), Proto-Slavic *čermъša (“ramson”) and Middle Irish crim (“garlic”), suggesting a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *kermus- (“wild garlic”). The e-vowel of Celtic and Balto-Slavic is also found in the placename Κρεμμυών (Kremmuṓn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /króm.my.on/ → /ˈkrom.my.on/ → /ˈkro.mi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /króm.my.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkrom.my.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.mi.on/

Noun

κρόμμῠον • (krómmuon) n (genitive κρομμῠ́ου); second declension

1. onion (Allium cepa)
2. (in the plural) onion-market

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρόμμῠον; τοῦ κρομμῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρόμμῠον tò krómmuon	τὼ κρομμῠ́ω tṑ krommúō	τᾰ̀ κρόμμῠᾰ tà krómmua
Genitive	τοῦ κρομμῠ́ου toû krommúou	τοῖν κρομμῠ́οιν toîn krommúoin	τῶν κρομμῠ́ων tôn krommúōn
Dative	τῷ κρομμῠ́ῳ tôi krommúōi	τοῖν κρομμῠ́οιν toîn krommúoin	τοῖς κρομμῠ́οις toîs krommúois
Accusative	τὸ κρόμμῠον tò krómmuon	τὼ κρομμῠ́ω tṑ krommúō	τᾰ̀ κρόμμῠᾰ tà krómmua
Vocative	κρόμμῠον krómmuon	κρομμῠ́ω krommúō	κρόμμῠᾰ krómmua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)
• κρομμύδιον (krommúdion)
• κρομμυογήτειον (krommuogḗteion)
• κρομμυοξυρεγμία (krommuoxuregmía)
• κρομμυοπώλης (krommuopṓlēs)
• κρομμυοπώλιον (krommuopṓlion)
• κρομμύφακον (krommúphakon)

 

Descendants

• > Tsakonian: κρέμμου (krémmou), κρέμμυ (krémmy) (inherited)
• → Laz: კრომი (ǩromi)

Further reading

• “κρόμμυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρόμμυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρόμμυον 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