κροκόδειλος

• κροκόδιλος (krokódilos), κροκύδιλος (krokúdilos), κρεκύδειλος (krekúdeilos), κροκύδειλος (krokúdeilos), κορκόδιλος (korkódilos), κορκότιλος (korkótilos), κορκόδριλλος (korkódrillos)

Ionic word for "lizard" (common being σαύρα (saúra)), perhaps from κρόκη (krókē, “pebbles”) + δρῖλος (drîlos, “worm”), because crocodiles like resting on flat stones. Typologically compare Sanskrit कृकलास (kṛkalāsa, “lizard, chameleon”), said to be composed of the words for "pebble" and "sit".[1]

κροκόδειλος • (krokódeilos) m (genitive κροκοδείλου); second declension

1. lizard
2. crocodile
3. A fallacy of the sophists

• Greek: κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos)
• → Latin: crocodīlus (see there for further descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܪܕܝܠܘܣ‎ (qōrdīlōs)
• → Old Armenian: կոկորդիղոս (kokordiłos)
• → Old East Slavic: коркодилъ (korkodilŭ)
• → Old Georgian: კორკოდილო (ḳorḳodilo), კორკოდინოს (ḳorḳodinos)

• κροκόδιλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κροκόδειλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crocodile idem, page 185.
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կոկորդիղոս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 619–620

• (rare) κροκόδιλος (krokódilos), κοκόρδειλος (kokórdeilos)

From Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).

κροκόδειλος • (krokódeilos) m (plural κροκόδειλοι)

1. crocodile (amphibious reptile)

• αλιγάτορας m (aligátoras, “alligator”)
• κάιμαν n (káiman, “caiman”)

• κροκόδειλος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el