Χριστός

See also: χριστός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χρῑστός (khrīstós, “the anointed one”); a semantic loan from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (mašīaḥ) and Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (m'šīḥāʿ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰriːs.tós/ → /xrisˈtos/ → /xrisˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰriːs.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰrisˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xrisˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xrisˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xrisˈtos/

Proper noun

Χρῑστός • (Khrīstós) m (genitive Χρῑστοῦ); second declension

1. Messiah or Christ, an epithet of Jesus of Nazareth

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Χρῑστός; τοῦ Χρῑστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Χρῑστός ho Khrīstós	τὼ Χρῑστώ tṑ Khrīstṓ	οἱ Χρῑστοί hoi Khrīstoí
Genitive	τοῦ Χρῑστοῦ toû Khrīstoû	τοῖν Χρῑστοῖν toîn Khrīstoîn	τῶν Χρῑστῶν tôn Khrīstôn
Dative	τῷ Χρῑστῷ tôi Khrīstôi	τοῖν Χρῑστοῖν toîn Khrīstoîn	τοῖς Χρῑστοῖς toîs Khrīstoîs
Accusative	τὸν Χρῑστόν tòn Khrīstón	τὼ Χρῑστώ tṑ Khrīstṓ	τοὺς Χρῑστούς toùs Khrīstoús
Vocative	Χρῑστέ Khrīsté	Χρῑστώ Khrīstṓ	Χρῑστοί Khrīstoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• Μεσσῑ́ᾱς (Messī́ās)

Derived terms

• Χρῑστῐᾱνός (Khrīstiānós)

Descendants

• Greek: Χριστός (Christós)
• → Coptic: ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ (khristos)
• → Gothic: 𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (xristus)
• → Latin: Christus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: Քրիստոս (Kʻristos)
  • Armenian: Քրիստոս (Kʻristos)
• → Old Church Slavonic: христосъ (xristosŭ), христъ (xristŭ), хрьстосъ (xrĭstosŭ), хрьстъ (xrĭstŭ)
  • Bulgarian: Христос (Hristos)
  • → Russian: Христо́с (Xristós)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Христос, Hristos
  • → Ukrainian: Христо́с (Xrystós)
• (see there for further descendants)

References

• “Χριστός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Χριστός 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
• G5547 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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Greek

Proper noun

Χριστός • (Christós) m (plural Christós)

1. (Christianity) Jesus Christ (the Messiah named Jesus)

Declension

  Χριστός

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Χριστός •
genitive	Χριστού •
accusative	Χριστό •
vocative	Χριστέ •
the form Χριστόν is found

Related terms

• χριστιανός m (christianós, “Christian”)
• χριστιανή f (christianí, “Christian”)
• χριστιανικός (christianikós, “Christian”) (adjective)
• χριστιανισμός m (christianismós, “Christianity”)
• χριστιανοσύνη m (christianosýni, “Christendom”)

See also

• Χρίστος m (Chrístos, “Christos”) (male given name)

Further reading

• Ιησούς Χριστός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el