χρῖσμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χρίω (khríō, “to smear or rub with, to coat”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă, suffix forming neuter nouns).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χρῖσμᾰ • (khrîsmă) n (genitive χρῑ́σμᾰτος); third declension

  1. anointing, unction
  2. wall coating, plaster

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ χρῖσμᾰ; τοῦ χρῑ́σμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ χρῖσμᾰ
tò khrîsmă 		τὼ χρῑ́σμᾰτε
tṑ khrī́smăte 		τᾰ̀ χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ
tằ khrī́smătă
Genitive τοῦ χρῑ́σμᾰτος
toû khrī́smătos 		τοῖν χρῑσμᾰ́τοιν
toîn khrīsmắtoin 		τῶν χρῑσμᾰ́των
tôn khrīsmắtōn
Dative τῷ χρῑ́σμᾰτῐ
tōî khrī́smătĭ 		τοῖν χρῑσμᾰ́τοιν
toîn khrīsmắtoin 		τοῖς χρῑ́σμᾰσῐ / χρῑ́σμᾰσῐν
toîs khrī́smăsĭ(n)
Accusative τὸ χρῖσμᾰ
tò khrîsmă 		τὼ χρῑ́σμᾰτε
tṑ khrī́smăte 		τᾰ̀ χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ
tằ khrī́smătă
Vocative χρῖσμᾰ
khrîsmă 		χρῑ́σμᾰτε
khrī́smăte 		χρῑ́σμᾰτᾰ
khrī́smătă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)
    • Portuguese: crisma
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кри̏зма
      Latin script: krȉzma
    • Spanish: crisma
    • → Swedish: krisma
  • ⇒? Latin: crismon
    • → English: chrismon
    • → German: Chrismon

References

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