χρῖσμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χρίω (khríō, “to smear or rub with, to coat”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma, suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

Noun

χρῖσμᾰ • (khrîsma) n (genitive χρῑ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. anointing, unction
2. wall coating, plaster

Inflection

Synonyms

• χρῖμα (khrîma)

Descendants

• → Latin: chrisma, crisma
  • → Alemannic German: Chrisam
  • Catalan: crisma
  • → English: chrism
  • French: chrême
  • Galician: crisma
  • → Icelandic: krisma
  • → Indonesian: krisma
  • Italian: crisma
  • → Middle High German: chrismo
    • → Old Czech: křižmo
      • Czech: křižmo
      • → Polish: krzyżmo
  • ⇒ Old French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)
  • Portuguese: crisma
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кри̏зма

    Latin script: krȉzma

  • Spanish: crisma
  • → Swedish: krisma
• ⇒? Latin: crismon
  • → English: chrismon
  • → German: Chrismon

References

• “χρῖσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρῖσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρῖσμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette