chrisma

English

Noun

chrisma

1. plural of chrismon

Anagrams

• Hamrics, archism, charism

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Latin

Alternative forms

• crisma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsma, “unction”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰriːs.ma/, [ˈkʰriːs̠mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkris.ma/, [ˈkrizmä]

Noun

chrīsma n (genitive chrīsmatis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) anointing, unction

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chrīsma	chrīsmata
Genitive	chrīsmatis	chrīsmatum
Dative	chrīsmatī	chrīsmatibus
Accusative	chrīsma	chrīsmata
Ablative	chrīsmate	chrīsmatibus
Vocative	chrīsma	chrīsmata

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Chrisam
• Catalan: crisma
• → English: chrism
• French: chrême
• Galician: crisma
• → Icelandic: krisma
• → Indonesian: krisma
• Italian: crisma
• → Middle High German: chrismo
  • → Old Czech: křižmo
    • Czech: křižmo
    • → Polish: krzyżmo
• ⇒ Old French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: crisma
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кри̏зма

  Latin script: krȉzma

• Spanish: crisma
• → Swedish: krisma

References

• “chrisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chrisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.