κροσσός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Frisk's suggestion that the expression originally derives from weaving, connecting the word with κρόκη (krókē, “thread of the woof”), is not likely. As he notes, it seems that this word was back formed from κροσσωτός (krossōtós, “tasselled, fringed”), which is attested much earlier and better. The word κροσσωτός (krossōtós) was formed to the original κρόσσαι (króssai, “stepped copings of parapets”) after θυσανωτός (thusanōtós, “tasselled, fringed”) and was transferred from the sphere of architecture to that of tailor-work.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kros.sós/ → /krosˈsos/ → /kroˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kros.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /krosˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kroˈsos/

Noun

κροσσός • (krossós) m (genitive κροσσοῦ); second declension

1. (mostly in the plural) fringe, tassel, lappet

   Synonym: θύσανος (thúsanos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κροσσός; τοῦ κροσσοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κροσσός ho krossós	τὼ κροσσώ tṑ krossṓ	οἱ κροσσοί hoi krossoí
Genitive	τοῦ κροσσοῦ toû krossoû	τοῖν κροσσοῖν toîn krossoîn	τῶν κροσσῶν tôn krossôn
Dative	τῷ κροσσῷ tôi krossôi	τοῖν κροσσοῖν toîn krossoîn	τοῖς κροσσοῖς toîs krossoîs
Accusative	τὸν κροσσόν tòn krossón	τὼ κροσσώ tṑ krossṓ	τοὺς κροσσούς toùs krossoús
Vocative	κροσσέ krossé	κροσσώ krossṓ	κροσσοί krossoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δίκροσσος (díkrossos)
• κροσσίον (krossíon)

 

Descendants

• Mariupol Greek: крош (kroš)
• → Translingual: Crossopterygii

Further reading

• “κροσσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κροσσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN