- κρότος
- κρότοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `beat of the feet, clapping of the hands, of rowers etc., noise, clapping, applause' (Att. etc.).Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. μονό-, δί-, τρί-κροτος `with one, two, three rows of rowers' (E., X., Plb.; Morrison Class. Quart. 41, 122 ff.), ἱππό-κροτος `beaten by horses, sounding from the beat of horses' (Pi., E.), ἀπό-κροτος `beaten hard' (Th., X.).Derivatives: κροτέω, also with preflx, esp. συν-, in diverse meanings, `rattle (make), beat, stamp' (O 453, IA.) with κρότημα (S., E.), -ησμός (A. Th. 561, after ὀρχησμός? Chantraine Formation 141), -ησις ([Pl.] Ax., Ph. Bel.), -ητικός (Dosith.). - κρόταλα n. pl. `clapper, castanets' (h. Hom., Pi., Hdt.), sg. metaph. `boaster' (Ar., E.), with κροτάλια n. pl. `(clappering) ear-rings' (pap.), NGr. κροταλίας, -ίτης `clappersnake?' (Redard Les noms grecs en -της 83), κροταλίζω `clapper' (A 160, Hdt. usw.) with -ίστρια, -ιστρίς `castanetteplayer' (pap.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: On κρόταφος, -φίς s. v. As soundverb compare κροτέω with κομπέω, κοναβέω, δουπέω, βρομέω, partly denomin., partly intensive deverbatives (see s. vv. and Schwyzer 726 w. n. 5). The earlier and more often attestations of κροτέω compared with κρότος speak for the priority of the verb. - The only usable comparison gives a German. verb with inner (orig. only presential?) nasalising, OE hrindan, hrand, OWNo. hrinda, hratt `push' (IE *kre-n-t-? Pok. 621); the analysis rests only on the comparison with κροτ-, and must prob. be rejected. - Wrong connections in Bq s. v.Page in Frisk: 2,26
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.