κρίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to decide”) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krí.sis/ → /ˈkri.sis/ → /ˈkri.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krí.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.sis/

Noun

κρῐ́σῐς • (krĭ́sĭs) f (genitive κρῐ́σεως); third declension

1. decision; determination; judgment
2. trial; sentence; accusation
3. quarrel; dispute
4. justice
5. turning point or decisive moment

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κρῐ́σῐς; τῆς κρῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρῐ́σῐς hē krĭ́sĭs	τὼ κρῐ́σει tṑ krĭ́sei	αἱ κρῐ́σεις hai krĭ́seis
Genitive	τῆς κρῐ́σεως tês krĭ́seōs	τοῖν κρῐσέοιν toîn krĭséoin	τῶν κρῐ́σεων tôn krĭ́seōn
Dative	τῇ κρῐ́σει tēî krĭ́sei	τοῖν κρῐσέοιν toîn krĭséoin	ταῖς κρῐ́σεσῐ / κρῐ́σεσῐν taîs krĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρῐ́σῐν tḕn krĭ́sĭn	τὼ κρῐ́σει tṑ krĭ́sei	τᾱ̀ς κρῐ́σεις tā̀s krĭ́seis
Vocative	κρῐ́σῐ krĭ́sĭ	κρῐ́σει krĭ́sei	κρῐ́σεις krĭ́seis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ᾰ̓νᾰ́κρῐσῐς (ănắkrĭsĭs)
• ᾰ̓ντᾰπόκρῐσῐς (ăntăpókrĭsĭs)
• ᾰ̓πόκρῐσῐς (ăpókrĭsĭs)
• δῐᾰ́κρῐσῐς (dĭắkrĭsĭs)
• ἔγκρῐσῐς (énkrĭsĭs)
• εἴσκρῐσῐς (eískrĭsĭs)
• ἔκκρῐσῐς (ékkrĭsĭs)
• ἐπέκκρῐσῐς (epékkrĭsĭs)
• ἐπῐδῐᾰ́κρῐσῐς (epĭdĭắkrĭsĭs)
• ἐπῐ́κρῐσῐς (epĭ́krĭsĭs)
• κᾰτᾰ́κρῐσῐς (kătắkrĭsĭs)
• προέκκρῐσῐς (proékkrĭsĭs)
• πρόκρῐσῐς (prókrĭsĭs)
• πρόσκρῐσῐς (próskrĭsĭs)
• σῠγκρῐσῐς (sŭnkrĭsĭs)
• ῠ̔περέκκρῐσῐς (hŭperékkrĭsĭs)
• ῠ̔πέρκρῐσῐς (hŭpérkrĭsĭs)
• ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς (hŭpókrĭsĭs)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲕⲣⲓⲥⲓⲥ (krisis)
• → English: crisis
• Greek: κρίση (krísi)
• → Latin: crisis

Further reading

• “κρίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κρίσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρίσις 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
• “κρίσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2920 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κρίσις 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adjudication idem, page 12.
  • award idem, page 56.
  • decision idem, page 201.
  • determination idem, page 219.
  • doom idem, page 247.
  • finding idem, page 321.
  • judgment idem, page 465.
  • sentence idem, page 753.
  • trial idem, page 893.
  • verdict idem, page 948.