κριτής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κρῐ-, the root of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to decide, judge”), + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kri.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kriˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kriˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kriˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kriˈtis/
Noun
κρῐτής • (krĭtḗs) m (genitive κρῐτοῦ); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κρῐτής ho krĭtḗs |
τὼ κρῐτᾱ́ tṑ krĭtā́ |
οἱ κρῐταί hoi krĭtaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κρῐτοῦ toû krĭtoû |
τοῖν κρῐταῖν toîn krĭtaîn |
τῶν κρῐτῶν tôn krĭtôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κρῐτῇ tōî krĭtēî |
τοῖν κρῐταῖν toîn krĭtaîn |
τοῖς κρῐταῖς toîs krĭtaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κρῐτήν tòn krĭtḗn |
τὼ κρῐτᾱ́ tṑ krĭtā́ |
τοὺς κρῐτᾱ́ς toùs krĭtā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κρῐτᾰ́ krĭtắ |
κρῐτᾱ́ krĭtā́ |
κρῐταί krĭtaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κριτής 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
- G2923 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κριτής 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.
- censor idem, page 122.
- interpreter idem, page 452.
- judge idem, page 465.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs).[1] By surface analysis, κρί(νω) (krí(no)) + -τής (-tís).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɾiˈtis/
- Hyphenation: κρι‧τής
Noun
κριτής • (kritís) m (plural κριτές)
- judge (a person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question)
- judge (a person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κριτής (kritís) | κριτές (krités) |
| genitive | κριτή (krití) | κριτών (kritón) |
| accusative | κριτή (krití) | κριτές (krités) |
| vocative | κριτή (krití) | κριτές (krités) |
Related terms
- see: κρίνω (kríno)
References
- ^ κριτής, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language