Κριοῦ (Kriou)

Κριοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of κριός, meaning “ram”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Κριός, “Krios — son of Polycritus, and one of the chief men of Aegina”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.764: εἰσαΐων κριοῦ, ὁ δʼ ἄρʼ ἐξενέποντι ἐοικώς.

Strabo, Geography 2.4.3: … πὶ Σαλμώνιον τῆς Κρήτης, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὸ ἑῷον ἄκρον, χιλίους, αὐτῆς δὲ τῆς Κρήτης μῆκος πλείους ἢ δισχιλίους ἐπὶ Κριοῦ μέτωπον, ἐντεῦθεν δʼ ἐπὶ Πάχυνον τῆς Σικελίας τετρακισχιλίους καὶ πεντακοσίους, καὶ ἀπὸ Παχύνου δὲ ἐπὶ πορθμὸ …

All forms of κριός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.