χόνδρος
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See also: χονδρός
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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰón.dros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰon.dros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxon.dros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxon.dros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxon.dros/
Noun
χόνδρος • (khóndros) m (genitive χόνδρου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ χόνδρος ho khóndros |
τὼ χόνδρω tṑ khóndrō |
οἱ χόνδροι hoi khóndroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χόνδρου toû khóndrou |
τοῖν χόνδροιν toîn khóndroin |
τῶν χόνδρων tôn khóndrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χόνδρῳ tôi khóndrōi |
τοῖν χόνδροιν toîn khóndroin |
τοῖς χόνδροις toîs khóndrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν χόνδρον tòn khóndron |
τὼ χόνδρω tṑ khóndrō |
τοὺς χόνδρους toùs khóndrous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χόνδρε khóndre |
χόνδρω khóndrō |
χόνδροι khóndroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: خَنْدَرِيس (ḵandarīs)
- → English: chondro-
- → Greek: χόνδρος (chóndros)
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)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | χόνδρος (chóndros) | χόνδροι (chóndroi) |
| genitive | χόνδρου (chóndrou) | χόνδρων (chóndron) |
| accusative | χόνδρο (chóndro) | χόνδρους (chóndrous) |
| vocative | χόνδρε (chóndre) | χόνδροι (chóndroi) |
Related terms
- χονδρικός (chondrikós, “cartilaginous”)
Further reading
χόνδρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
