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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χρή (khrḗ, “it is necessary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰrěː.aː/ → /ˈxri.a/ → /ˈxri.a/
Noun
χρείᾱ • (khreíā) f (genitive χρείᾱς); first declension
- need, want, necessity
- want, poverty
- business, purpose (especially military purpose)
- employment, function
- use
- use, advantage, service
- familiarity, intimacy
- maxim
Inflection
References
- “χρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χρεία 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
- “χρεία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5532 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.
- acquaintance idem, page 8.
- appeal idem, page 34.
- application idem, page 36.
- connection idem, page 161.
- dearth idem, page 198.
- demand idem, page 209.
- desire idem, page 215.
- entreaty idem, page 278.
- exercise idem, page 291.
- exigence idem, page 292.
- familiarity idem, page 305.
- friendship idem, page 345.
- indulgence idem, page 435.
- intercourse idem, page 449.
- intimacy idem, page 454.
- lack idem, page 473.
- manipulation idem, page 512.
- necessity idem, page 554.
- need idem, page 554.
- penury idem, page 604.
- request idem, page 700.
- requirement idem, page 700.
- service idem, page 755.
- stress idem, page 825.
- suit idem, page 836.
- urgency idem, page 939.
- usage idem, page 940.
- use idem, page 940.
- utility idem, page 941.
- want idem, page 961.
- wish idem, page 983.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN