κρίνον

Unknown; presumedly of foreign or substrate origin.

κρῐ́νον • (krínon) n (genitive κρῐ́νου); second declension

1. lily
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 6:28:

     καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν· οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν·

     katamáthete tà krína toû agroû pôs auxánousin; ou kopiôsin oudè nḗthousin;

     See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Declined as a second-declension noun in the singular, but as a third-declension s-stem (as if *κρίνος, κρίνεος) in the plural.

Singular:

Plural:

• κρίνινος (kríninos)

• Greek: κρίνο (kríno)

• 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

• “κρίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρίνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2918 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κρίνον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lily idem, page 492.