χρόμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰromós (“a roar, rumble; thunder”), the same root of χρόμαδος (khrómados, “crash, fragor”), χρεμετίζω (khremetízō, “to whinny, neigh”), χρέμπτομαι (khrémptomai, “to clear one's throat”), Proto-Germanic *grimmaz (“grim, fierce”) and Proto-Slavic *gromъ (“thunder”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰró.mos/ → /ˈxro.mos/ → /ˈxro.mos/

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

Noun

χρόμος • (khrómos) m (genitive χρόμου); second declension

1. crashing sound
2. neighing of horses

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χρόμος; τοῦ χρόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χρόμος ho khrómos	τὼ χρόμω tṑ khrómō	οἱ χρόμοι hoi khrómoi
Genitive	τοῦ χρόμου toû khrómou	τοῖν χρόμοιν toîn khrómoin	τῶν χρόμων tôn khrómōn
Dative	τῷ χρόμῳ tôi khrómōi	τοῖν χρόμοιν toîn khrómoin	τοῖς χρόμοις toîs khrómois
Accusative	τὸν χρόμον tòn khrómon	τὼ χρόμω tṑ khrómō	τοὺς χρόμους toùs khrómous
Vocative	χρόμε khróme	χρόμω khrómō	χρόμοι khrómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: χλιμιντρίζω (chlimintrízo)

Further reading

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