κροτών

See also: Κρότων

Ancient Greek

κροτών illustration in the Vienna Dioscurides

Etymology

Probably a Semitic borrowing, compare Classical Syriac ܩܪܕܐ (qerdā, tick; castor oil plant), cognate to Arabic قُرَاد (qurād, tick), Tigrinya ቍርዲድ (ḳʷərdid), ቈርዳድ (ḳʷärdad, tick), Tigre ቀራድ (ḳärad, tick), Harari ቁርዱድ (ḳurdud, tick). Which dovetails with the other word for the castor oil plant κίκι (kíki) being borrowed from Egyptian.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κροτών (krotṓn) m (genitive κροτῶνος); third declension

  1. tick (Ixodes ricinus)
  2. castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)
  3. (in the plural) castor beans

Inflection

Derived terms

  • κροτώνη (krotṓnē)
  • κροτωνοειδές (krotōnoeidés)
  • κροτωνοφόρος (krotōnophóros)

Descendants

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.