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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Strömberg, it could be a back-formation from the verb χρέμπτομαι (khrémptomai, “to clear one's throat”). Beekes proposes a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”), a root found in other fish names, such as χρέμης (khrémēs) and χρόμις (khrómis), and in the verb χρεμετίζω (khremetízō, “to neigh, whinny”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰrémps/ → /xremps/ → /xremps/
Noun
χρέμψ • (khrémps)
- kind of fish mentioned by Aristotle
Further reading
- “χρέμψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χρέμψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χρεμετίζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1647