χάρισμα

From the ancient χαρίζομαι (kharízomai, “show favor”) (from χάρις (kháris, “grace”) from χαίρω (khaírō, “I am happy”)) + -μα (-ma).

χᾰ́ρῐσμᾰ • (khárisma) n (genitive χᾰρῐ́σμᾰτος); third declension (Koine)

1. A favourable disposition towards: grace, favor
2. A voluntary favourable act: favour, gift

• > Greek: χάρισμα (chárisma) (inherited)
• → Coptic: ⲭⲁⲣⲓⲥⲙⲁ (kharisma)
• → Italian: carisma
• → Latin: charisma
• → Dutch: charisma n
• → English: charisma
• → German: Charisma n
• → Russian: хари́зма f (xarízma)

• “χάρισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάρισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάρισμα 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
• G5486 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Inherited from Koine Greek χάρισμα (khárisma). By surface analysis, (χαρίζω) χαρισ- ((charízo) charis-, “to grant”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.ɾi.zma/
• Hyphenation: χά‧ρι‧σμα

χάρισμα • (chárisma) n (plural χαρίσματα)

1. endowment, gift (of a personal quality)

   Είχε το χάρισμα της μαντικής. ― Eíche to chárisma tis mantikís. ― She has the gift of divination.

• χάρισμα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language