κροτών
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κροτών illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides
See also: Κρότων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a Semitic borrowing, compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܕܐ (qerdā, “tick; castor oil plant”), cognate to Arabic قُرَاد (qurād, “tick”), Tigrinya ቍርዲድ (ḳʷərdid), ቈርዳድ (ḳʷärdad, “tick”), Tigre ቀራድ (ḳärad, “tick”), Harari ቁርዱድ (ḳurdud, “tick”). Which dovetails with the other word for the castor oil plant κίκι (kíki) being borrowed from Egyptian.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kro.tɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kroˈton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kroˈton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kroˈton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kroˈton/
Noun
κροτών • (krotṓn) m (genitive κροτῶνος); third declension
- tick (Ixodes ricinus)
- castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)
- (in the plural) castor beans
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κροτών ho krotṓn |
τὼ κροτῶνε tṑ krotône |
οἱ κροτῶνες hoi krotônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κροτῶνος toû krotônos |
τοῖν κροτώνοιν toîn krotṓnoin |
τῶν κροτώνων tôn krotṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κροτῶνῐ tôi krotôni |
τοῖν κροτώνοιν toîn krotṓnoin |
τοῖς κροτῶσῐ / κροτῶσῐν toîs krotôsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κροτῶνᾰ tòn krotôna |
τὼ κροτῶνε tṑ krotône |
τοὺς κροτῶνᾰς toùs krotônas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κροτών krotṓn |
κροτῶνε krotône |
κροτῶνες krotônes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κροτώνη (krotṓnē)
- κροτωνοειδές (krotōnoeidés)
- κροτωνοφόρος (krotōnophóros)
Descendants
- Translingual: Croton
Further reading
- “κροτών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κροτών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κροτών 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