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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[coarse barley-meal]], [[coarse bread]], pl. also [[crumbs]] (Hp., Herod., Eup., Arist., pap., Lyc.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ῖ-</b>?<br />Derivatives: [[κριμνώδης]] [[κ]].-like' (Hp., Ar.); <b class="b3">κριμνίτης ἄρτος</b> [[coarse bread]] (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 [[κυλλῆστις]])<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. The connection with [[κρῖ]], [[κριθή]] (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 [[κρίνω]] as "what is sieved" (Curtius 165, Brugmann Grundr.2 2: 1, 231 a. n.); cf. on [[κρησέρα]]. Rejected by Schwyzer 524. - Fur. 245 compares [[κρίνον]] [[kind of bread]] (Ath. 3, 114f: not in LSJ) as < <b class="b3">*κριϜνον</b>.