- κραῦρος
- κραῦροςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `dry, brittle, fragile' (Pl., Arist., Thphr.).Derivatives: κραυρότης `frailty' (Thphr., Gal.), κραυρόομαι `become dry' (Ph., D. C.). Further κραῦρος m. (Arist.) = κραῦρα f. (Gortyn [?], Suid., Phot.) `feverish disease of swine and cattle' with κραυράω `suffer of κ.' (Arist.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Wrong etymologies in Bq. - Rhyming θραῦρον τραγανόν, θραυόμενον H. (to θραύω), also with remarkable barytonesis (as in the oppositum γλίσχρος). - Variant of κράμβος, s.v.Page in Frisk: 2,11
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.