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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χρᾰ́ω (khráō, “I use, lend, declare”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰrɛ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈxri.sis/ → /ˈxri.sis/
Noun
χρῆσῐς • (khrêsis) f (genitive χρήσεως); third declension
- use, usage, employment
- utility, usefulness
- intimacy, relationship, sexual intercourse
- (grammar) use, example, quotation
- the response of an oracle
- loan
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “χρῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χρῆσις 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
- “χρῆσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5540 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.