κρῆθμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, but probably a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɛ̂ːtʰ.mon/ → /ˈkriθ.mon/ → /ˈkriθ.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɛ̂ːtʰ.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkre̝tʰ.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkriθ.mon/

Noun

κρῆθμον • (krêthmon) n (genitive κρήθμου); second declension

1. samphire

   Synonym: βατίς (batís)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρῆθμον; τοῦ κρήθμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρῆθμον tò krêthmon	τὼ κρήθμω tṑ krḗthmō	τᾰ̀ κρῆθμᾰ tà krêthma
Genitive	τοῦ κρήθμου toû krḗthmou	τοῖν κρήθμοιν toîn krḗthmoin	τῶν κρήθμων tôn krḗthmōn
Dative	τῷ κρήθμῳ tôi krḗthmōi	τοῖν κρήθμοιν toîn krḗthmoin	τοῖς κρήθμοις toîs krḗthmois
Accusative	τὸ κρῆθμον tò krêthmon	τὼ κρήθμω tṑ krḗthmō	τᾰ̀ κρῆθμᾰ tà krêthma
Vocative	κρῆθμον krêthmon	κρήθμω krḗthmō	κρῆθμᾰ krêthma
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: crēthmos

Further reading

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