- κροτών
- κροτών, -ῶνοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `tick (louse of sheep), Pediculus ovis, Ixodes' (Arist., Dsc., Plu.), also `tree of castor oil, Ricinus communis' and its seeds (Hp., Thphr., hell.), after Dsc. 4, 161 διὰ την ὡς πρὸς τὸ ζῳ̃ον τοῦ σπέρματος ἐμφέρειαν; cf. Strömberg Theophrastea 50.Compounds: Compp., e.g. κροτωνο-φόρος (γῆ; hell. pap.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Unexplained. Hofmann Et. Wb. considers without motivation connection with κρότος. - From it κροτώνη f. `knag, pathological excrescence on the stem (of the olive), fragments of bronchial cartiledge' (Thphr., Hp., Gal.); on the formation cf. γογγρώνη and Chantraine Formation 207, Schwyzer 491. Connection with κάρταλ(λ)ος `basket' through *κρατώνη (J. Schmidt KZ 32, 370) is both phonetically and semantically difficult.Page in Frisk: 2,26-27
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.