κριός

Uncertain. Traditionally connected with κέρας (kéras, “horn”). The chickpea meaning possibly relates to Latin cicer (“chickpea”), Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”). Beekes argues for an original meaning of “curved”, comparing Lithuanian kreivas, Old East Slavic кривъ (krivŭ).

κρῑός • (krīós) m (genitive κρῑοῦ); second declension

1. ram
   1. battering ram
   2. the constellation Aries

   Synonym: κτίλος (ktílos)

2. sea-monster
3. type of mussel
4. volute (Ionic architecture)
5. type of ship
6. part of an irrigation system
7. type of chickpea

   Hypernym: ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos)

• “κριός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κριός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κριός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κριός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κριός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κριός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• κριός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • battering-ram idem, page 65.
  • engine idem, page 274.
  • ram idem, page 670.
  • wether idem, page 974.

From Ancient Greek κριός (kriós).

κριός • (kriós) m (plural κριοί)

1. ram, male sheep
2. battering ram

• κριάρι n (kriári)

• πολιορκητικός κριός m (poliorkitikós kriós, “battering ram”)

• κριός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el