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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κρῐ-, the root of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to decide, judge”), + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kri.tɛ̌ːs/ → /kriˈtis/ → /kriˈtis/
Noun
κρῐτής • (kritḗs) m (genitive κρῐτοῦ); first declension
- umpire
- judge
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κριτής 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
- G2923 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κριτής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs).[1] By surface analysis, κρί(νω) (krí(no)) + -τής (-tís).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɾiˈtis/
- Hyphenation: κρι‧τής
Noun
κριτής • (kritís) m (plural κριτές)
- judge (a person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question)
- judge (a person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar)
Declension
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