Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρεῖας ‎(kreîas) (Epic)
• κρῆς ‎(krês) (Doric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kréas/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kréas/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kɾéas/

Noun

κρέας • ‎(kréas) n ‎(genitive κρέως, κρέατος); third declension

1. flesh, meat
2. carcass, body

Inflection

κρέας was sometimes declined as stem κρέατ- and sometimes as stem κρέα-. Both are shown here. Compare the morphologically similar (but etymologically unrelated) κέρας ‎(kéras, “horn”)

κρέατ-

κρέα- (contracted)

Other forms include Homeric κρέεσσι ‎(kréessi), κρεάεσσι ‎(kreáessi) (dative plural); κρειῶν ‎(kreiôn), κρεάων ‎(kreáōn) (genitive plural); and Cretan κρίως ‎(kríōs) (genitive singular)

References

• κρέας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρέας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρέας in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κρέας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «κρέας» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κρέας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2907”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • carrion idem, page 115.
  • flesh idem, page 327.
  • meat idem, page 521.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρέας ‎(kréas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkre̞as/
• Hyphenation: κρέ‧ας

Noun

κρέας • ‎(kréas) n ‎(plural κρέατα)

1. meat

   πρόβειο κρέας‎ ― próveio kréas ― mutton (literally "sheep meat")

Declension

Synonyms

• τσιτσί n ‎(tsitsí, “meat”) (childish)

Related terms

• κρεατοφάγος m, f ‎(kreatofágos, “carnivore”)
• κρεατοσφαιρίδια n, pl ‎(kreatosfairídia, “meatballs”)
• κρεοπωλείο n ‎(kreopoleío, “butcher's shop”)
• κρεοπώλης m ‎(kreopólis, “butcher”)
• κρεοπώλισσα f ‎(kreopólissa, “butcher”)
• πρόβειο κρέας n ‎(próveio kréas, “mutton”, literally “sheep meat”)

See also

• σάρκα f ‎(sárka, “flesh”)