χρησμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of χράω (khráō, “to declare”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰrɛːz.mós/ → /xrizˈmos/ → /xrizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰrɛːz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰre̝zˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xrizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xrizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xrizˈmos/

Noun

χρησμός • (khrēsmós) m (genitive χρησμοῦ); second declension

1. oracle, prophecy

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χρησμός ho khrēsmós	τὼ χρησμώ tṑ khrēsmṓ	οἱ χρησμοί hoi khrēsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ χρησμοῦ toû khrēsmoû	τοῖν χρησμοῖν toîn khrēsmoîn	τῶν χρησμῶν tôn khrēsmôn
Dative	τῷ χρησμῷ tôi khrēsmôi	τοῖν χρησμοῖν toîn khrēsmoîn	τοῖς χρησμοῖς toîs khrēsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν χρησμόν tòn khrēsmón	τὼ χρησμώ tṑ khrēsmṓ	τοὺς χρησμούς toùs khrēsmoús
Vocative	χρησμέ khrēsmé	χρησμώ khrēsmṓ	χρησμοί khrēsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ χρησμός; τοῦ χρησμοῦ (Attic)

Descendants

• → Romanian: hrismos

Further reading

• “χρησμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρησμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρησμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “χρησμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • answer idem, page 31.
  • oracle idem, page 577.
  • prediction idem, page 634.
  • prophecy idem, page 653.
  • reply idem, page 696.
  • response idem, page 704.