κρημνός

Traditionally considered an old verbal noun from κρεμάννυμι (kremánnumi, “to hang”), however Beekes finds this impossible and leaves the etymology unexplained. Since a root-final -α- would be expected, and landscape terms are often borrowed from substrate languages, the word is probably Pre-Greek. The suffix -(ᾱ)μν-ο- (-(ā)mn-o-) is also considered Pre-Greek by Beekes.

κρημνός • (krēmnós) m (genitive κρημνοῦ); second declension

1. overhanging bank of a river; edge of a trench
2. beetling cliff, crag, precipice

   Synonym: ἐρῐ́πνη (erípnē)

3. (in the plural) (medicine) edges of an ulcer
4. (anatomy) labia

• “κρημνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρημνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρημνός 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
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 46

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κρημνός (krēmnós). Sense in surgery, a free translation of French lambeau. See more at γκρεμός (gkremós).

• IPA^(key): /kɾiˈmnos/
• Hyphenation: κρη‧μνός

κρημνός • (krimnós) m (plural κρημνοί)

1. (learned) formal, learned form of γκρεμός (gkremós)
2. (surgery) flap (attached tissue used during plastic surgery)

• see: γκρεμός (gkremós)

• Words with -κρημνός - Anastasiadi-Symeonidi, Anna (2003). Αντίστροφο λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής. The Reverse Index of Modern Greek @greek-language.gr