κροτών

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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 (krotṓnm (genitive κροτῶνος); third declension

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

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