Hellas Alive Dictionary - κρανεινος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρανέϊνος κρανέϊνη κρανέϊνον

Structure: κρανεϊν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kra/non

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	κρανέϊνος κρανεί̈νου	κρανεϊνότερος κρανεϊνοτέρου	κρανεϊνότατος κρανεϊνοτάτου
Adverb	κρανεί̈νως	κρανεϊνότερον	κρανεϊνότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

πλεῖστοσ δ’ ὁ στύραξ φύεται παρ’ αὐτοῖσ, δένδρον οὐ μέγα ὀρθηλόν, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ τὰ στυράκινα ἀκοντίσματα, ἐοικότα τοῖσ κρανεί̈νοισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 7 5:8)
καὶ ἐκ τούτου ἐπλεονέκτουν ἤδη οἱ σὺν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῇ τε ἄλλῃ ῥώμῃ καὶ ἐμπειρίᾳ καὶ ὅτι ξυστοῖσ κρανεΐνοισ πρὸσ παλτὰ ἐμάχοντο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 15 5:1)

made of cornel-wood
- στυράκινος (made of the wood of the tree)
- μονόξυλος (made of wood only)
- πύξινος (made of box-wood)
- λώτινος (made of lotus-wood)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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