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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krêː.on/ → /ˈkri.on/ → /ˈkri.on/
Etymology 1
From κρέας (kréas, “meat”) + -ῐον (-ion). A contracted form κρίον (kríon) is possibly attested in Hesychius.
Noun
κρεῖον • (kreîon) n (genitive κρείου); second declension
- meat-tray
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 9.206:
- αὐτὰρ ὅ γε κρεῖον μέγα κάββαλεν ἐν πυρὸς αὐγῇ
- autàr hó ge kreîon méga kábbalen en puròs augêi
- He in turn placed down a big meat-tray in the glow of the fire.
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the main entry.
Noun
κρεῖον • (kreîon)
- vocative singular of κρείων (kreíōn)
Further reading
- “κρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κρεῖον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κρεῖον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κρεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011