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|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">coarse barley meal</b>, Hp. ap. Gal.19.115, <span class="bibl">Eup.11.5</span> D.(prob.), <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>501b31</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRyl.</span>280v</span>(ii A. D.); [[grounds]] in gruel, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>205</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">coarse loaf</b>, AP6.302 (Leon.), <span class="bibl">Babr.108.9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> in pl., [[crumbs]], <span class="bibl">Herod.6.6</span>; <b class="b3">κρίμνα χειρῶν</b>, = [[ἀπομαγδαλιά]], Lyc.607.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">coarse barley-meal, coarse bread</b>, pl. also [[crumbs]] (Hp., Herod., Eup., Arist., pap., Lyc.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ῖ-</b>?<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κριμνώδης</b> <b class="b3">κ</b>.-like' (Hp., Ar.); <b class="b3">κριμνίτης ἄρτος</b> <b class="b2">coarse bread</b> (Iatrocl. ap. Ath. 14, 646a; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 90); <b class="b3">κριμνῆστις πλακοῦντος εἶδος</b> H. (cf. on <b class="b3">κυλλῆστις</b>)<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. The connection with <b class="b3">κρῖ</b>, <b class="b3">κριθή</b> (Brugmann MU 2, 179, Chantraine Formation 215) is qua formation not explained. Rather to be analysed in <b class="b3">κρι-μν-ον</b> to <b class="b3">κρίνω</b> as "what is sieved" (Curtius 165, Brugmann Grundr.2 2: 1, 231 a. n.); cf. on <b class="b3">κρησέρα</b>. Rejected by Schwyzer 524. - Fur. 245 compares <b class="b3">κρίνον</b> <b class="b2">kind of bread</b> (Ath. 3, 114f: not in LSJ) as < <b class="b3">*κριϜνον</b>.