χρέμυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects the word with κρεμύς (kremús, “a kind of fish”) and considers it of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰré.mys/ → /ˈxre.mys/ → /ˈxre.mis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰré.mys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰre.mys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxre.mys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxre.mys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxre.mis/

Noun

χρέμῠς • (khrémus) m (genitive χρέμῠος); third declension

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ὀνίσκος (onískos, “cod”).

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ χρέμῠς; τοῦ χρέμῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χρέμῠς ho khrémus	τὼ χρέμῠε tṑ khrémue	οἱ χρέμῠες hoi khrémues
Genitive	τοῦ χρέμῠος toû khrémuos	τοῖν χρεμῠ́οιν toîn khremúoin	τῶν χρεμῠ́ων tôn khremúōn
Dative	τῷ χρέμῠῐ̈ / χρέμυι tôi khrémuï / khrémui	τοῖν χρεμῠ́οιν toîn khremúoin	τοῖς χρέμῠσῐ / χρέμῠσῐν toîs khrémusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν χρέμῠν tòn khrémun	τὼ χρέμῠε tṑ khrémue	τοὺς χρέμῡς / χρέμῠᾰς toùs khrémūs / khrémuas
Vocative	χρέμῠ khrému	χρέμῠε khrémue	χρέμῠες khrémues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “χρέμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: χ