κρίνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

substrate loan

Pronunciation

 

Noun

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

  1. lily

Declension

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:

Descendants

References

  • 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

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