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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">beat of the feet, clapping of the hands, of rowers etc., noise, clapping, applause</b> (Att. etc.).<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μονό-</b>, <b class="b3">δί-</b>, <b class="b3">τρί-κροτος</b> <b class="b2">with one, two, three rows of rowers</b> (E., X., Plb.; Morrison Class. Quart. 41, 122 ff.), <b class="b3">ἱππό-κροτος</b> <b class="b2">beaten by horses, sounding from the beat of horses</b> (Pi., E.), <b class="b3">ἀπό-κροτος</b> <b class="b2">beaten hard</b> (Th., X.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κροτέω</b>, also with preflx, esp. <b class="b3">συν-</b>, in diverse meanings, <b class="b2">rattle (make), beat, stamp</b> (O 453, IA.) with <b class="b3">κρότημα</b> (S., E.), <b class="b3">-ησμός</b> (A. Th. 561, after <b class="b3">ὀρχησμός</b>? Chantraine Formation 141), <b class="b3">-ησις</b> ([Pl.] Ax., Ph. Bel.), <b class="b3">-ητικός</b> (Dosith.). - <b class="b3">κρόταλα</b> n. pl. [[clapper]], [[castanets]] (h. Hom., Pi., Hdt.), sg. metaph. [[boaster]] (Ar., E.), with <b class="b3">κροτάλια</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">(clappering) ear-rings</b> (pap.), NGr. <b class="b3">κροταλίας</b>, <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> <b class="b2">clappersnake?</b> (Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 83), <b class="b3">κροταλίζω</b> [[clapper]] (A 160, Hdt. usw.) with <b class="b3">-ίστρια</b>, <b class="b3">-ιστρίς</b> [[castanetteplayer]] (pap.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: On <b class="b3">κρόταφος</b>, <b class="b3">-φίς</b> s. v. As soundverb compare <b class="b3">κροτέω</b> with <b class="b3">κομπέω</b>, <b class="b3">κοναβέω</b>, <b class="b3">δουπέω</b>, <b class="b3">βρομέω</b>, partly denomin., partly intensive deverbatives (see s. vv. and Schwyzer 726 w. n. 5). The earlier and more often attestations of <b class="b3">κροτέω</b> compared with <b class="b3">κρότος</b> speak for the priority of the verb. - The only usable comparison gives a German. verb with inner (orig. only presential?) nasalising, OE [[hrindan]], [[hrand]], OWNo. [[hrinda]], [[hratt]] [[push]] (IE <b class="b2">*kre-n-t-</b>? Pok. 621); the analysis rests only on the comparison with <b class="b3">κροτ-</b>, and must prob. be rejected. - Wrong connections in Bq s. v.

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