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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *krohnós, from Proto-Indo-European *kros-nós, from *kres- (“spring, fount”); cognate with Proto-Albanian *krāna (> modern Albanian krua). Related to κρήνη (krḗnē, “spring, well, fountain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kruː.nós/ → /kruˈnos/ → /kruˈnos/
Noun
κρουνός • (krounós) m (genitive κρουνοῦ); second declension
- spring, wellhead, source of water
- Synonyms: κρήνη (krḗnē), πηγή (pēgḗ), πῖδᾰξ (pîdax)
- (figuratively) stream, torrent
- watercourse
- spout, nozzle
Inflection
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References
- “κρουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρουνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρουνός 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