κρίνον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown; presumedly of foreign or substrate origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krí.non/ → /ˈkri.non/ → /ˈkri.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krí.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.non/

Noun

κρῐ́νον • (krĭ́non) n (genitive κρῐ́νου); second declension

1. lily
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 6:28:

     καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν· οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν·

     katamáthete tà krína toû agroû pôs auxánousin; ou kopiôsin oudè nḗthousin;

     See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

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:

Second declension of τὸ κρῐ́νον; τοῦ κρῐ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρῐ́νον tò krĭ́non	τὼ κρῐ́νω tṑ krĭ́nō	τᾰ̀ κρῐ́νᾰ tằ krĭ́nă
Genitive	τοῦ κρῐ́νου toû krĭ́nou	τοῖν κρῐ́νοιν toîn krĭ́noin	τῶν κρῐ́νων tôn krĭ́nōn
Dative	τῷ κρῐ́νῳ tôi krĭ́nōi	τοῖν κρῐ́νοιν toîn krĭ́noin	τοῖς κρῐ́νοις toîs krĭ́nois
Accusative	τὸ κρῐ́νον tò krĭ́non	τὼ κρῐ́νω tṑ krĭ́nō	τᾰ̀ κρῐ́νᾰ tằ krĭ́nă
Vocative	κρῐ́νον krĭ́non	κρῐ́νω krĭ́nō	κρῐ́νᾰ krĭ́nă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Plural:

Third declension of τᾰ̀ κρῐ́νεᾰ; τῶν κρῐνέων (Ionic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ κρῐ́νεᾰ tằ krĭ́neă
Genitive	τῶν κρῐνέων tôn krĭnéōn
Dative	τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν κρῐ́νεσῐ / κρῐ́νεσῐν toîsĭ(n) krĭ́nesĭ(n)
Accusative	τᾰ̀ κρῐ́νεᾰ tằ krĭ́neă
Vocative	κρῐ́νεᾰ krĭ́neă
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

• κρίνινος (kríninos)

Descendants

• Greek: κρίνο (kríno)

Further reading

• “κρίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρίνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2918 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κρίνον 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lily idem, page 492.
• “κρίνον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011