ἐπί-κρανον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `skull, brain-pan', also of the head in gen. (Θ 84 [Atticism?, Wackernagel Unt. 225, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 18, Shipp Studies 21], Pi. I. 4, 54, Att.).

Compounds: As 1. member in κρανιό-λειος `bald-headed' ( Com. Adesp. 1050); not seldom as 2. member, esp. in medic. expressions, e.g. ὀπισθο-κράνιον `occiput', ἐγ-κράνιον `cerebellum' (after ἐγ-κέφαλος), but also otherwise, e.g. βου-κράνιον `oxhead' (EM), also as plant-name (Ps.-Dsc., Gal., Strömberg Pflanzennamen 47). Adjectival hypostasis περι-κράνιος `running around the skull' (Plu., medic.).

Derivatives: Beside it, older and more usual, -κρᾱνον, e.g ἐπί-κρανον `capital, head-band' (Pi., E., inscr.), ποτί-κρανον `cushion' (Sophr., Theoc.), ὀλέ-κρανον `head of the elbow' (Hp., Ar., Arist.), κιο(νό)-κρανον (s. κίων). Adj., e. g. βού-, ἐλαφό-, δί-, τρί-, χαλκεό-, ὀρθό-κρανος. Rarely as 1. member: κρανο-κοπέω `cut off the head' (pap.); on κρανο-κολάπτης s. κράνον. -- Denomin. verbs: κρανίξαι ἐπὶ κεφαλην ἀπορρῖψαι, κρηνιῶν καρηβαρῶν H.; hypostasis ἀποκρανίξαι `tear from the head' (AP), `cut off the head' (Eust.). The secondary formation κρᾱνίον goes back on a nominal basis. We can better start directly from the oblique stem κρᾱν-.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [574] *ḱerh₂- `head, horn'

Etymology: Further see on κάρα and κέρας.

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `complete' (Il.), intr. `end' (medic.), `rule' (θ 391, S., E.; Wackernagel Unt. 157).

Other forms: (v. l. κρᾱαίνω), aor. κρηῆναι (Il.), κραᾶναι H., pass. κρᾱανθῆναι (Theoc.), perf. 3. sg. κεκρά̄ανται (Od.), Vbaladj. ἀ-κρά̄αν-τος (Hom.); - κραίνω (Od., medic.), fut. κρᾰνέω, -ῶ (Emp., A., E.; ἐπι-κρᾱνεῖ A. Ag. 1340), κρᾰνέεσθαι (I 626, intr.), aor. κρῆναι (O 599), κρᾶναι (A., S.), pass. κρανθῆναι (Pi., trag.), perf. 3. sg. κέκρανται (trag.), ἄ-κραν-τος (Pi., trag.);

Compounds: also with ἐπι-.

Derivatives: From κραίνω: κράντωρ, - ορος `ruler' (E. in lyr., AP), `who fulfills' (Epigr. ap. Paus. 8, 52, 6), with dissimilation κάντορες οἱ κρατοῦντες H. (Lewy KZ 59, 180); κραντήρ, - ῆρος `ruler' (Orph.), pl. `wisdom-teeth', prop. "fulfiller", scil. of the tooth-row (Arist.), sg. `tusk' (Nic., Lyc.); f. κράντειρα `governess' ( APl., Orph.); on κράντωρ, - τήρ Benveniste Noms d'agent 46f.; κράντης `fulfiller' (Lyc.); κραντήριοι οἱ κραίνοντες, καὶ ἐπιτελοῦντες H. - Compound αὑτό-κρανος `fulfilling himself, self-evident' (H., EM; also A. Fr. 295f.); after H. also = κίων μονόλιθος; in the last meaning rather to κάρᾱ `head' ; s. - κρανον s. κρανίον.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [574] *ḱerh₂- `head'

Etymology: The variant κρᾱαίνω will stand for *κρᾱσαίνω, as gen. κρά̄ατος \< *κρά̄σα-τος to κάρᾱ, κάρη `head', like ὀνομαίνω to ὀνόμα-τος from ὄνομα; so a denomin. from the old n-stem. Prop. meaning `(put the head on something' (cf. καρᾱνοῦν `complete' of κάρᾱνον `head'). - Beside κρᾱαίνω with Ionic form aorist κρηῆναι, contracted κρῆναι, to which again the younger present κραίνω (cf. φῆναι: φαίνω) with κρᾰνέω etc. The form κραι-αίνω may have its stemsyllable κραι- from κραίνω (Leumann IF 57, 157). -Fraenkel Denom. 7, Bechtel Lex. s. v., Schwyzer 724f. and Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 82, (improb.1, 343 a basis *κράσαρ n.).

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