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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe with dissimilatory elision from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ- (“to grind, crush”) (see *gʰer-), the same root of Proto-Germanic *grindaną (“to grind”) and Latin frendō (“I gnash”), + -ρος (-ros). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰón.dros/ → /ˈxon.dros/ → /ˈxon.dros/
Noun
χόνδρος • (khóndros) m (genitive χόνδρου); second declension
- A small rounded mass: lump
- grain, groat, corn, spelt
- cartilage
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόνδρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1643
- “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χόνδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “groat, cartilage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
χόνδρος • (chóndros) m (plural χόνδροι)
- (anatomy) cartilage, gristle, cartilaginous skeletal material
- groats
Declension
Further reading