χρῖσμα
Ancient Greek
    
    Etymology
    
From χρίω (khríō, “to smear or rub with, to coat”) + -μᾰ (-ma, suffix forming neuter nouns).
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰrîːz.ma/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰriz.ma/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈxriz.ma/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈxriz.ma/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈxriz.ma/
 
Noun
    
χρῖσμᾰ • (khrîsma) n (genitive χρῑ́σμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ χρῖσμᾰ tò khrîsma  | 
τὼ χρῑ́σμᾰτε tṑ khrī́smate  | 
τᾰ̀ χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ tà khrī́smata  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χρῑ́σμᾰτος toû khrī́smatos  | 
τοῖν χρῑσμᾰ́τοιν toîn khrīsmátoin  | 
τῶν χρῑσμᾰ́των tôn khrīsmátōn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χρῑ́σμᾰτῐ tôi khrī́smati  | 
τοῖν χρῑσμᾰ́τοιν toîn khrīsmátoin  | 
τοῖς χρῑ́σμᾰσῐ / χρῑ́σμᾰσῐν toîs khrī́smasi(n)  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ χρῖσμᾰ tò khrîsma  | 
τὼ χρῑ́σμᾰτε tṑ khrī́smate  | 
τᾰ̀ χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ tà khrī́smata  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χρῖσμᾰ khrîsma  | 
χρῑ́σμᾰτε khrī́smate  | 
χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ khrī́smata  | ||||||||||
| Notes: | 
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Synonyms
    
- χρῖμα (khrîma)
 
Descendants
    
- → Latin: chrisma, crisma
- → 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 Czech: křižmo
 - ⇒ Old French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)
 - Portuguese: crisma
 - → Serbo-Croatian:
 - Spanish: crisma
 - → Swedish: krisma
 
 - ⇒? Latin: crismon
- → English: chrismon
 - → German: Chrismon
 
 
References
    
- “χρῖσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “χρῖσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - χρῖσμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 
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