χόνδρος

See also: χονδρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe with dissimilatory elision from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrendʰ- (“to grind, crush”) (see *gʰer-), the same root of Proto-Germanic *grindaną (“to grind”) and Latin frendō (“I gnash”), +‎ -ρος (-ros). However, Beekes finds this proposal unconvincing.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

χόνδρος • (khóndros) m (genitive χόνδρου); second declension

  1. A small rounded mass: lump
  2. grain, groat, corn, spelt
  3. cartilage

Declension
Second declension of ὁ χόνδρος; τοῦ χόνδρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ χόνδρος
ho khóndros		 τὼ χόνδρω
tṑ khóndrō		 οἱ χόνδροι
hoi khóndroi
Genitive τοῦ χόνδρου
toû khóndrou		 τοῖν χόνδροιν
toîn khóndroin		 τῶν χόνδρων
tôn khóndrōn
Dative τῷ χόνδρῳ
tôi khóndrōi		 τοῖν χόνδροιν
toîn khóndroin		 τοῖς χόνδροις
toîs khóndrois
Accusative τὸν χόνδρον
tòn khóndron		 τὼ χόνδρω
tṑ khóndrō		 τοὺς χόνδρους
toùs khóndrous
Vocative χόνδρε
khóndre		 χόνδρω
khóndrō		 χόνδροι
khóndroi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Arabic: خَنْدَرِيس (ḵandarīs)
  • → English: chondro-
  • → Greek: χόνδρος (chóndros)

Further reading
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόνδρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1643
  • “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “χόνδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • χόνδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.

Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “groat, cartilage”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxon.ðɾos/

Noun

χόνδρος • (chóndros) m (plural χόνδροι)

  1. (anatomy) cartilage, gristle, cartilaginous skeletal material
  2. groats

Declension
declension of χόνδρος
case     \     number singular plural
nominative χόνδρος • χόνδροι •
genitive χόνδρου • χόνδρων •
accusative χόνδρο • χόνδρους •
vocative χόνδρε • χόνδροι •

Further reading
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