Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρᾱ́νᾱ ‎(krā́nā) Doric
• κράννᾱ ‎(kránnā) Aeolic

Noun

κρήνη • ‎(krḗnē) f ‎(genitive κρήνης); first declension

1. well, spring, fountain
2. (in the plural, poetic) waters

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• κρουνός ‎(krounós)

Descendants

• New Latin: creno-
  • French: crénologie, crénophile, crénothérapie
  • Italian: crenico, crenato
  • Translingual: Phytocrene

References

• κρήνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρήνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρήνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κρήνη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κρήνη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fountain idem, page 341.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • stream idem, page 824.