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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I decide”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krí.sis/ → /ˈkri.sis/ → /ˈkri.sis/
Noun
κρῐ́σῐς • (krísis) f (genitive κρῐ́σεως); third declension
- decision, determination, judgment
- trial, sentence, accusation
- quarrel, dispute
- turning point or decisive point of disease progression
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “κρίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρίσις 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
- “κρίσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2920 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κρίσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adjudication idem, page 12.
- award idem, page 56.
- decision idem, page 201.
- determination idem, page 219.
- doom idem, page 247.
- finding idem, page 321.
- judgment idem, page 465.
- sentence idem, page 753.
- trial idem, page 893.
- verdict idem, page 948.