κριός

Uncertain. Traditionally connected with κέρας (kéras, “horn”). Could be derived from a Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker, with cognates including Latin cicer (“chickpea”), Old Armenian սիսեռն (siseṙn, “chickpea”). Beekes argues for an original meaning of "curved", comparing Lithuanian kreivas, Old East Slavic кривъ (krivŭ).

κρῑός • (krīós) m (genitive κρῑοῦ); second declension

1. ram
   1. battering ram
   2. the constellation Aries
2. sea-monster
3. type of mussel
4. volute (Ionic architecture)
5. type of ship
6. part of an irrigation system
7. type of chickpea

• κριός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κριός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κριός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κριός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κριός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κριός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• κριός 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.
  • battering-ram idem, page 65.
  • engine idem, page 274.
  • ram idem, page 670.
  • wether idem, page 974.

κριός • (kriós) m (plural κριοί)

1. ram, male sheep
2. battering ram
3. (astronomy, astrology) Aries, the Ram

• κριάρι n (kriári)

• πολιορκητικός κριός m (poliorkitikós kriós, “battering ram”)

• κριός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el