κράστις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• γρᾰ́στῐς (grắstĭs)

Etymology

From γράω (gráō, “to gnaw, eat”) +‎ -τῐς (-tĭs, nominal suffix), but influenced by another unknown word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /krás.tis/ → /ˈkras.tis/ → /ˈkras.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /krás.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.tis/

Noun

κρᾰ́στῐς • (krắstĭs) f (genitive κρᾰ́στεως); third declension

1. greenfodder

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς; τῆς κρᾰ́στεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς hē krắstĭs	τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ krắstei	αἱ κρᾰ́στεις hai krắsteis
Genitive	τῆς κρᾰ́στεως tês krắsteōs	τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krăstéoin	τῶν κρᾰ́στεων tôn krắsteōn
Dative	τῇ κρᾰ́στει têi krắstei	τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krăstéoin	ταῖς κρᾰ́στεσῐ / κρᾰ́στεσῐν taîs krắstesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κρᾰ́στῐν tḕn krắstĭn	τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ krắstei	τᾱ̀ς κρᾰ́στεις tā̀s krắsteis
Vocative	κρᾰ́στῐ krắstĭ	κρᾰ́στει krắstei	κρᾰ́στεις krắsteis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κρᾰστήρῐον (krăstḗrĭon)
• κρᾰστῐ́ζομαι (krăstĭ́zomai)

Further reading

• “κράστις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κράστις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN