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κροῦμα , ατος, το, (κρούω)
A.beat, stroke, Ar.Ec.257 (sens. obsc.):— also κροῦσμα AP6.27 (Theaet.), Poet.de herb.121, Porph.Abst.1.43; κρούσμασι καὶ στρέμμασι blows and sprains, Paul.Aeg.3.78, cf. Poll.2.199.
2. sound produced by striking stringed instruments with the plectron, note, “κρούεται τὰ κρούματα . . , τὰ μὲν ἄνω, τὰ δὲ κάτω” Hp. Vict.1.18, cf. Ar.Th.120 (lyr.), Pl.R.333b, Min.317d, etc.; “τὸ πόημα οὐχ ὡς τερέτισμα καὶ κ. νοοῦμεν” Phld.Po.2p.228H.; also of wind instruments, “κρούματα τὰ αὐλήματα καλοῦσιν” Plu.2.638c, cf. Poll.4.83, 7.88; “σαλπιστικὰ κ.” Id.4.84; “τοιαῦτα . . νιγλαρεύων κ.” Eup.110; “αὐλεῖ . . σαπρὰ κ.” Theopomp.Com.50; ἡ τοῦ κρούματος ἁρμονία the melody (on the pan-pipes), Ach.Tat.8.6, cf.APl.1.8 (Alc. Mess.); so, musical air, melody, BGU1125.4 (i B. C.); “ᾠδαὶ καὶ κ.” Jul.Or.2.49d:—also κροῦσμα , AP5.291.8 (Agath.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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