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Traditionally considered an old verbal noun from κρεμάννυμι (kremánnumi, to hang), however Beekes finds this impossible and leaves the etymology unexplained.[1] Since a root-final -α- would be expected, and landscape terms are often borrowed from substrate languages, the word is probably Pre-Greek. The suffix -(ᾱ)μν-ο- (-(ā)mn-o-) is also considered Pre-Greek by Beekes.[2]

κρημνός (krēmnósm (genitive κρημνοῦ); second declension

  1. overhanging bank of a river; edge of a trench
  2. beetling cliff, crag, precipice
    Synonym: ἐρῐ́πνη (erĭ́pnē)
  3. (in the plural) (medicine) edges of an ulcer
  4. (anatomy) labia
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κρημνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 777
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 31:-αμν-ο

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κρημνός (krēmnós). Sense in surgery, a free translation of French lambeau.[1] See more at γκρεμός (gkremós).

  • IPA(key): /kɾiˈmnos/
  • Hyphenation: κρη‧μνός

κρημνός (krimnósm (plural κρημνοί)

  1. (learned) formal, learned form of γκρεμός (gkremós)
  2. (surgery) flap (attached tissue used during plastic surgery)
  1. ^ κρημνός - Charalambakis, Chistoforos et al. (2014) Χρηστικό λεξικό της νεοελληνικής γλώσσας (Christiko lexiko tis Neoellhnikis Glossas) [A Practical dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek) Athens: Academy of Athens. (online since 2023 - abbreviations - symbols)