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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formed from the base of χράομαι (khráomai, “want, need”) + -μα (-ma).[1]
Noun
χρῆμᾰ • (khrêma) n (genitive χρήμᾰτος); third declension
- need; a thing that one needs or uses
- goods, property
- money
- thing, matter, affair
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Further reading
- “χρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χρῆμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χρῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χρῆμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χρῆμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5536 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.