μικρός

• σμῑκρός (smīkrós) — Ionic, Old Attic
• μῑκκός (mīkkós) — Doric, Boeotian

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyg-, *(s)mēyg- (“small, thin, delicate”), thereby cognate with e.g. Old English smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, tasteful”), whence modern English smicker; compare also German mickrig. However this etymology leaves the /k/ of the Greek forms unexplained.

Beekes argues for Pre-Greek origin on the basis of variation between initial /m/ and /sm/, as well as the variant forms μικός (mikós) and μικκός (mikkós).

μῑκρός • (mīkrós) m (feminine μῑκρᾱ́, neuter μῑκρόν); first/second declension

1. little, small
   1. (amount) a little of
   2. (importance) petty, trivial, insignificant
   3. (time) short, brief
   4. (age) young

• (small, insignificant): ἐλαχύς (elakhús)
• (young): νέος (néos)

• μῐκρολογῐ́ᾱ (mikrologíā)

• Greek: μικρός (mikrós)

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μῑκρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 951–952
• “μικρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μικρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μικρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μικρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μικρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μικρός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3398 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brief idem, page 98.
  • diminutive idem, page 225.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • faint idem, page 302.
  • feeble idem, page 313.
  • insignificant idem, page 445.
  • jejune idem, page 462.
  • languid idem, page 475.
  • limited idem, page 492.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • meagre idem, page 519.
  • mean idem, page 519.
  • minor idem, page 531.
  • paltry idem, page 590.
  • petty idem, page 609.
  • puny idem, page 658.
  • remote idem, page 694.
  • short idem, page 768.
  • slender idem, page 783.
  • slight idem, page 784.
  • small idem, page 786.
  • stunted idem, page 829.
  • tiny idem, page 877.
  • trifling idem, page 895.
  • trivial idem, page 896.
  • weak idem, page 969.

Inherited from Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós, “small, insignificant”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈkros/
• Hyphenation: μι‧κρός

μικρός • (mikrós) m (feminine μικρή or μικρά, neuter μικρό)

1. small, little
2. short (in length)
   • 1980, “Μην Κλαις [Don't Cry]”, in Michalis Bourboulis (lyrics), Ilias Andriopoulos (music), Λαϊκά Προάστια [Popular Suburbs], performed by Sotiria Bellou:

     Τα καλοκαίρια μας μικρά,
     κι ατέλειωτοι οι χειμώνες.

     Ta kalokaíria mas mikrá,
     ki atéleiotoi oi cheimónes.

     Our summers short,
     and our winters endless.

3. young

• μεγάλος (megálos, “large”)

μικρός • (mikrós) m (plural μικροί)

1. (anatomy) little finger

   Synonym: μικρό δάχτυλο (mikró dáchtylo)

2. boy

• μικρός - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.