κράστις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γρᾰ́στῐς (grástis)

Etymology

From γράω (gráō, “to gnaw, eat”) +‎ -τῐς (-tis, nominal suffix), but influenced by another unknown word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krás.tis/ → /ˈkras.tis/ → /ˈkras.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krás.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/

Noun

κρᾰ́στῐς • (krástis) f (genitive κρᾰ́στεως); third declension

1. greenfodder

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς; τῆς κρᾰ́στεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς hē krástis	τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ krástei	αἱ κρᾰ́στεις hai krásteis
Genitive	τῆς κρᾰ́στεως tês krásteōs	τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krastéoin	τῶν κρᾰ́στεων tôn krásteōn
Dative	τῇ κρᾰ́στει têi krástei	τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krastéoin	ταῖς κρᾰ́στεσῐ / κρᾰ́στεσῐν taîs krástesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρᾰ́στῐν tḕn krástin	τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ krástei	τᾱ̀ς κρᾰ́στεις tā̀s krásteis
Vocative	κρᾰ́στῐ krásti	κρᾰ́στει krástei	κρᾰ́στεις krásteis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρᾰστήρῐον (krastḗrion)
• κρᾰστῐ́ζομαι (krastízomai)

 

Further reading

• “κράστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κράστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN