ASemitic loanword. CompareAkkadian𒌑𒆪𒄀𒆸𒈾(/⁠kurkanū⁠/),Arabicكُرْكُم(kurkum), andHebrewכרכום(karkom).^[1]

κρόκος• (krókos) m (genitiveκρόκου);second declension

1. saffron,Crocus sativus
2. saffron (dye)
3. yolk (of an egg)

   Antonym:λευκόν(leukón)

• Greek:κρόκος(krókos)
• → Latin:crocus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian:კროკონი(ḳroḳoni)

• “κρόκος”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρόκος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κρόκος”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κρόκος inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κρόκος inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
• “κρόκος”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • crocus idem, page 185.
  • saffron idem, page 730.
• κρόκος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese),University of Chicago, since 2011

• κροκός(krokós)

FromAncient Greekκρόκος(krókos), of ultimatelySemitic origin.Doublet ofκουρκουμάς(kourkoumás).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾo.kos/
• Hyphenation:κρό‧κος

κρόκος• (krókos) m (pluralκρόκοι)

1. yolk,egg yolk

   κρόκος αβγού ―krókos avgoú ―eggyolk

2. (botany)crocus
3. (herb)saffron

   Synonym:ζαφορά f(zaforá)

• → Hawaiian:keloko

• κρόκος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at theCentre for the Greek language

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