κρίσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I decide”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

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 • (krísis) f (genitive κρῐ́σεως); third declension

1. decision, determination, judgment
2. trial, sentence, accusation
3. quarrel, dispute
4. turning point or decisive point of disease progression

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κρῐ́σῐς; τῆς κρῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρῐ́σῐς hē krísis	τὼ κρῐ́σει tṑ krísei	αἱ κρῐ́σεις hai kríseis
Genitive	τῆς κρῐ́σεως tês kríseōs	τοῖν κρῐσέοιν toîn kriséoin	τῶν κρῐ́σεων tôn kríseōn
Dative	τῇ κρῐ́σει têi krísei	τοῖν κρῐσέοιν toîn kriséoin	ταῖς κρῐ́σεσῐ / κρῐ́σεσῐν taîs krísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρῐ́σῐν tḕn krísin	τὼ κρῐ́σει tṑ krísei	τᾱ̀ς κρῐ́σεις tā̀s kríseis
Vocative	κρῐ́σῐ krísi	κρῐ́σει krísei	κρῐ́σεις kríseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• δῐᾰ́κρῐσῐς (diákrisis)
• ἔγκρῐσῐς (énkrisis)
• εἴσκρῐσῐς (eískrisis)
• ἔκκρῐσῐς (ékkrisis)
• ἐπέκκρῐσῐς (epékkrisis)
• ἐπῐδῐᾰ́κρῐσῐς (epidiákrisis)
• ἐπῐ́κρῐσῐς (epíkrisis)
• κᾰτᾰ́κρῐσῐς (katákrisis)
• προέκκρῐσῐς (proékkrisis)
• πρόκρῐσῐς (prókrisis)
• πρόσκρῐσῐς (próskrisis)
• σῠγκρῐσῐς (sunkrisis)
• ᾰ̓ντᾰπόκρῐσῐς (antapókrisis)
• ᾰ̓νᾰ́κρῐσῐς (anákrisis)
• ᾰ̓πόκρῐσῐς (apókrisis)
• ῠ̔περέκκρῐσῐς (huperékkrisis)
• ῠ̔πέρκρῐσῐς (hupérkrisis)
• ῠ̔πόκρῐσῐς (hupókrisis)

 

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.