κρήνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρᾱ́νᾱ (krā́nā) — Doric
• κράννᾱ (kránnā) — Aeolic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kres- (“spring, fount”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /ˈkri.ni/ → /ˈkri.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krɛ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkre̝.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.ni/

Noun

κρήνη • (krḗnē) f (genitive κρήνης); first declension

1. well, spring, fountain
2. (in the plural, poetic) waters

Declension

First declension of ἡ κρήνη; τῆς κρήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρήνη hē krḗnē	τὼ κρήνᾱ tṑ krḗnā	αἱ κρῆναι hai krênai
Genitive	τῆς κρήνης tês krḗnēs	τοῖν κρήναιν toîn krḗnain	τῶν κρηνῶν tôn krēnôn
Dative	τῇ κρήνῃ têi krḗnēi	τοῖν κρήναιν toîn krḗnain	ταῖς κρήναις taîs krḗnais
Accusative	τὴν κρήνην tḕn krḗnēn	τὼ κρήνᾱ tṑ krḗnā	τᾱ̀ς κρήνᾱς tā̀s krḗnās
Vocative	κρήνη krḗnē	κρήνᾱ krḗnā	κρῆναι krênai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρηνάγγη (krēnángē)
• κρηναῖος (krēnaîos)
• κρήνηθεν (krḗnēthen)
• κρηνήϊος (krēnḗïos)
• κρήνηνδε (krḗnēnde)

• κρηνιάς (krēniás)
• κρηνίδιον (krēnídion)
• κρηνίον (krēníon)
• κρηνίς (krēnís)
• κρηνῖτις (krēnîtis)

• κρηνοῦχος (krēnoûkhos)
• κρηνοφυλάκιον (krēnophulákion)
• κρηνοφύλαξ (krēnophúlax)
• κρηνῶν ἐπιμελητής (krēnôn epimelētḗs)

Related terms

• κρουνός (krounós)

Descendants

• New Latin: creno-
  • French: crénologie, crénophile, crénothérapie
  • Italian: crenico, crenato
  • Translingual: Phytocrene

Further reading

• “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κρήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κρήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κρήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fountain idem, page 341.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • stream idem, page 824.