χρόμαδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The ending recalls other sound words like ἄραδος (árados), κέλαδος (kélados) and ὅμαδος (hómados). According to Beekes, it is from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”), the same root of χρεμετίζω (khremetízō, “to whinny, neigh”), χρόμος (khrómos, “kind of noise”), Proto-Germanic *grimmaz (“grim, fierce”) and Proto-Slavic *gromъ (“thunder”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰró.ma.dos/ → /ˈxro.ma.ðos/ → /ˈxro.ma.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰró.ma.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰro.ma.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxro.ma.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxro.ma.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxro.ma.ðos/

Noun

χρόμᾰδος • (khrómados) m (genitive χρομᾰ́δου); second declension

1. crash, din, fragor

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χρόμᾰδος; τοῦ χρομᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χρόμᾰδος ho khrómados	τὼ χρομᾰ́δω tṑ khromádō	οἱ χρόμᾰδοι hoi khrómadoi
Genitive	τοῦ χρομᾰ́δου toû khromádou	τοῖν χρομᾰ́δοιν toîn khromádoin	τῶν χρομᾰ́δων tôn khromádōn
Dative	τῷ χρομᾰ́δῳ tôi khromádōi	τοῖν χρομᾰ́δοιν toîn khromádoin	τοῖς χρομᾰ́δοις toîs khromádois
Accusative	τὸν χρόμᾰδον tòn khrómadon	τὼ χρομᾰ́δω tṑ khromádō	τοὺς χρομᾰ́δους toùs khromádous
Vocative	χρόμᾰδε khrómade	χρομᾰ́δω khromádō	χρόμᾰδοι khrómadoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χρόμαδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρόμαδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χρόμαδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χρόμαδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• χρόμαδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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