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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of χράω (khráō, “to declare”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰrɛːz.mós/ → /xrizˈmos/ → /xrizˈmos/
Noun
χρησμός • (khrēsmós) m (genitive χρησμοῦ); second declension
- oracle, prophecy
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “χρησμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρησμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χρησμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “χρησμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.