- κέρασος
- κέρασοςGrammatical information: m. (f.)Meaning: `bird-cherry, Prunus avium' (Xenoph., Thphr.).Other forms: κερασός acc. Hdn. Gr. 1, 209.Dialectal forms: Myc. keraso \/κερασώ\/, Heubeck, Kadmos 4, 956, 138-145; Chantr., Atti primo congr. Micenol. 1, 575.Derivatives: κερασία, -έα `id.' (Gp.; cf. κερατία, -έα s. κέρας), κεράσιον `fruit of the κ.' (hell.), *κεράσινος in Lat. cerasinus `cherry-coloured', n. κεράσινον `cherry-coloured paint' (PHolm.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Ending as in the foreign θίασος, κάρπασος (s. vv.). As the improved cherry came from the Pontos-area (whence Κερασοῦς town on the Pontos, "the rich in cherries"), the name too will be Anatolian. Origin further unknown, after Bq (doubting) Thraco-Phrygian (doubts in Kretschmer Glotta 5, 309); G. Neumann, Untersuch. 101, Hester, Lingua 13, 1965, 356. One adduces also Assyr. karšu. Cf. on κράνον. - From Gr. κέρασος, -ία, κεράσιον came on the one hand Asiatic names of the cherry-tree and the cherry as Arm. ker̄as, Kurd. ghilas, on the other hand Lat. cerasus, -ium, Vulg. Lat. *cerasia, *ceresia, -ea; from Latin again the Rom. and Germ. forms as Fr. cerise, OHG chirsa \> Kirsche. - See W.-Hofmann s. cerasus. Cf. Olck, RE 11, 509f. The form with intervoc. σ must be Anatolian or Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 1,827-828
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.