χρηστός

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”).

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• Homophone: χριστός (khristós) (Koine from the 4th century AD on)

χρηστός • (khrēstós) m (feminine χρηστή, neuter χρηστόν); first/second declension

1. good, useful
2. (Koine) kind, gracious
3. (Koine) easy, manageable

• χρηστότης (khrēstótēs)

• χράω (khráō)
• χρῄζω (khrḗizō)

• “χρηστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρηστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρηστός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5543 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.
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  • exemplary idem, page 290.
  • fine idem, page 321.
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