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κριῷ (krio)

κριῷ is an Ancient Greek form of Κρίος, meaning “Krios — son of Polycritus, and one of the chief men of Aegina”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.257: κῦμα μέλαν κριῷ ἅμʼ ἐπικλύσαι· ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐδὴν

Hesiod, Theogony 375: Κρίῳ δʼ Εὐρυβίη τέκεν ἐν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.19: Περὶ ὑψωμάτων Τὰ δὲ καλούμενα τῶν πλανωμένων ὑψώματα λόγον ἔχει τοιόνδε ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος ἐν μὲν τῷ Κριῷ γενόμενος τὴν εἰς τὸ ὑψηλὸν καὶ βόρειον ἡμικύκλιον μετάβασιν ποιεῖται, ἐν δὲ ταῖς Χηλαῖς τὴν εἰς τὸ ταπεινὸν …

All forms of Κρίος (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.