chrisma

See also: Chrisma

English

Noun

chrisma

1. plural of chrismon

Anagrams

• Hamrics, archism, charism

Latin

Alternative forms

• crisma

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰriːs.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkriz.ma]

Noun

chrīsma n (genitive chrīsmatis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) anointing, unction

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	chrīsma	chrīsmata
genitive	chrīsmatis	chrīsmatum
dative	chrīsmatī	chrīsmatibus
accusative	chrīsma	chrīsmata
ablative	chrīsmate	chrīsmatibus
vocative	chrīsma	chrīsmata

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cresima
• Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Old French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Alemannic German: Chrisam
• → Catalan: crisma
• → English: chrism
• → French: chrême
• → Galician: crisma
• → German: Chrisma, Chrisam
• → Icelandic: krisma
• → Indonesian: krisma
• → Italian: crisma
• → Middle High German: chrismo
  • → Old Czech: křižmo
    • Czech: křižmo
    • → Polish: krzyżmo
      • → Ukrainian: кри́жмо (krýžmo)
• → Portuguese: crisma
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кри̏зма

  Latin script: krȉzma

• → Spanish: crisma
  • → Tagalog: krisma
• → 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.