γρόνθος

Traditionally derived from a root *γρόν (*grón) with a suffix -θος (-thos) supposedly equivalent to that found in μασθός (masthós), βρόχθος (brókhthos), and κύσθος (kústhos). Said root is often compared with Proto-Germanic *krimmaną (“to crumble, squeeze”), Old Norse krumma (“hollow of the hand”), Latin gremium (“lap, womb”), and Lithuanian grùmti (“to press into, fill”), suggesting a derivation from a Proto-Indo-European *grem- or similar, though phonetic mismatches make these comparisons uncertain.^[1]

γρόνθος • (grónthos) m (genitive γρόνθου); second declension

1. fist
2. breadth of a hand
3. grasp, spoke of a machine

• Greek: γρόνθος (grónthos), γροθιά (grothiá)

• “γρόνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γρόνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γρόνθος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γρόνθος (grónthos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣron.θos/

γρόνθος • (grónthos) m (plural γρόνθοι)

1. (literary) fist

   Synonym: γροθιά (grothiá)

• γρόνθος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language