χρῆσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χρᾰ́ω (khráō, “I use, lend, declare”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰrɛ̂ː.sis/ → /ˈxri.sis/ → /ˈxri.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰrɛ̂ː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰre̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.sis/

Noun

χρῆσῐς • (khrêsis) f (genitive χρήσεως); third declension

1. use, usage, employment
2. utility, usefulness
3. intimacy, relationship, sexual intercourse
4. (grammar) use, example, quotation
5. the response of an oracle
6. loan

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χρῆσῐς; τῆς χρήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χρῆσῐς hē khrêsis	τὼ χρήσει tṑ khrḗsei	αἱ χρήσεις hai khrḗseis
Genitive	τῆς χρήσεως tês khrḗseōs	τοῖν χρησέοιν toîn khrēséoin	τῶν χρήσεων tôn khrḗseōn
Dative	τῇ χρήσει têi khrḗsei	τοῖν χρησέοιν toîn khrēséoin	ταῖς χρήσεσῐ / χρήσεσῐν taîs khrḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χρῆσῐν tḕn khrêsin	τὼ χρήσει tṑ khrḗsei	τᾱ̀ς χρήσεις tā̀s khrḗseis
Vocative	χρῆσῐ khrêsi	χρήσει khrḗsei	χρήσεις khrḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: χρήση (chrísi)

Further reading

• “χρῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρῆσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρῆσις 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
• “χρῆσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5540 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • employment idem, page 269.
  • use idem, page 940.
  • usefulness idem, page 940.