- κρίμνον
- κρίμνονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `coarse barley-meal, coarse bread', pl. also `crumbs' (Hp., Herod., Eup., Arist., pap., Lyc.).Other forms: -ῖ-?Derivatives: κριμνώδης 'κ.-like' (Hp., Ar.); κριμνίτης ἄρτος `coarse bread' (Iatrocl. ap. Ath. 14, 646a; Redard Les noms grecs en -της 90); κριμνῆστις πλακοῦντος εἶδος H. (cf. on κυλλῆστις)Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Unexplained. The connection with κρῖ, κριθή (Brugmann MU 2, 179, Chantraine Formation 215) is qua formation not explained. Rather to be analysed in κρι-μν-ον to κρί̄νω as "what is sieved" (Curtius 165, Brugmann Grundr.2 2: 1, 231 a. n.); cf. on κρησέρα. Rejected by Schwyzer 524. - Fur. 245 compares κρίνον `kind of bread' (Ath. 3, 114f: not in LSJ) as \< *κριϜνον.Page in Frisk: 2,20
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.