κριτήριον

From κρῐτήρ (kritḗr, “interpreter”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), from κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I discern, judge”).

κρῐτήρῐον • (kritḗrion) n (genitive κρῐτηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. means of judging, criterion, test, standard
2. court, tribunal
3. lawsuit

• Greek: κριτήριο (kritírio)
• → New Latin: criterion (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: крите́рий (kritérij)

• “κριτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κριτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κριτήριον 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
• G2922 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.
  • canon idem, page 111.
  • criterion idem, page 184.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • standard idem, page 810.
  • test idem, page 863.