κράστις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- γρᾰ́στῐς (grástis)
Etymology
From γράω (gráō, “to gnaw, eat”) + -τῐς (-tis, nominal suffix), but influenced by another unknown word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krás.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkras.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkras.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkras.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkras.tis/
Noun
κρᾰ́στῐς • (krástis) f (genitive κρᾰ́στεως); third declension
- greenfodder
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς; τῆς κρᾰ́στεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κρᾰ́στῐς hē krástis | τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ krástei | αἱ κρᾰ́στεις hai krásteis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κρᾰ́στεως tês krásteōs | τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krastéoin | τῶν κρᾰ́στεων tôn krásteōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κρᾰ́στει têi krástei | κρᾰστέοιν krastéoin | ταῖς κρᾰ́στεσῐ / κρᾰ́στεσῐν taîs krástesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κρᾰ́στῐν tḕn krástin | κρᾰ́στει krástei | τᾱ̀ς κρᾰ́στεις tā̀s krásteis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κρᾰ́στῐ krásti | κρᾰ́στει krástei | κρᾰ́στεις krásteis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κρᾰστήρῐον (krastḗrion)
- κρᾰστῐ́ζομαι (krastízomai)
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