κρόταλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κροτέω (krotéō, “to rattle”), with a suffix -αλον found also in κύμβαλον (kúmbalon, “cymbal”) and ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, mace”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kró.ta.lon/ → /ˈkro.ta.lon/ → /ˈkro.ta.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kró.ta.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ta.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ta.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ta.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ta.lon/

Noun

κρότᾰλον • (krótalon) n (genitive κροτᾰ́λου); second declension

1. clapper, rattle, castanet

   Synonym: κρέμβᾰλᾰ (krémbala)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρότᾰλον; τοῦ κροτᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κρότᾰλον tò krótalon	τὼ κροτᾰ́λω tṑ krotálō	τᾰ̀ κρότᾰλᾰ tà krótala
Genitive	τοῦ κροτᾰ́λου toû krotálou	τοῖν κροτᾰ́λοιν toîn krotáloin	τῶν κροτᾰ́λων tôn krotálōn
Dative	τῷ κροτᾰ́λῳ tôi krotálōi	τοῖν κροτᾰ́λοιν toîn krotáloin	τοῖς κροτᾰ́λοις toîs krotálois
Accusative	τὸ κρότᾰλον tò krótalon	τὼ κροτᾰ́λω tṑ krotálō	τᾰ̀ κρότᾰλᾰ tà krótala
Vocative	κρότᾰλον krótalon	κροτᾰ́λω krotálō	κρότᾰλᾰ krótala
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κροτᾰλῐ́ζω (krotalízō)
• κροτᾰλῐσμός (krotalismós)
• κροτᾰλῐ́στρῐᾱ (krotalístriā)
• κροτᾰλῐστῐ́ς (krotalistís)
• κροτᾰ́λῐᾰ (krotália)
• ὀνοκρότᾰλος (onokrótalos)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: crotalum
• → Translingual: Crotalus

Further reading

• “κρόταλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρόταλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette