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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χρηστός (khrēstós, “useful, serviceable”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰrɛːs.tó.tɛːs/ → /xrisˈto.tis/ → /xrisˈto.tis/
Noun
χρηστότης • (khrēstótēs) f (genitive χρηστότητος); third declension
- (of persons) goodness, honesty
- goodness of heart, kindness
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “χρηστότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρηστότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χρηστότης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χρηστότης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G5544 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.
- goodness idem, page 367.
- honesty idem, page 404.
- integrity idem, page 448.
- probity idem, page 643.
- rectitude idem, page 684.
- respectability idem, page 703.
- uprightness idem, page 939.
- virtue idem, page 954.
- virtuousness idem, page 954.
- worthiness idem, page 990.