κριτήριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κρῐτήρ (kritḗr, “interpreter”) + -ῐον (-ion), from κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I discern, judge”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kri.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kriˈte̝.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/
Noun
κρῐτήρῐον • (kritḗrion) n (genitive κρῐτηρῐ́ου); second declension
- means of judging, criterion, test, standard
- court, tribunal
- lawsuit
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κρῐτήρῐον; τοῦ κρῐτηρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κρῐτήρῐον tò kritḗrion | τὼ κρῐτηρῐ́ω tṑ kritēríō | τᾰ̀ κρῐτήρῐᾰ tà kritḗria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κρῐτηρῐ́ου toû kritēríou | τοῖν κρῐτηρῐ́οιν toîn kritēríoin | τῶν κρῐτηρῐ́ων tôn kritēríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κρῐτηρῐ́ῳ tôi kritēríōi | τοῖν κρῐτηρῐ́οιν toîn kritēríoin | τοῖς κρῐτηρῐ́οις toîs kritēríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κρῐτήρῐον tò kritḗrion | τὼ κρῐτηρῐ́ω tṑ kritēríō | τᾰ̀ κρῐτήρῐᾰ tà kritḗria | ||||||||||
Vocative | κρῐτήρῐον kritḗrion | κρῐτηρῐ́ω kritēríō | κρῐτήρῐᾰ kritḗria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κριτήριο (kritírio)
- → New Latin: criterion (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: крите́рий (kritérij)
References
- “κριτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κριτήριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κριτήριον 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
- G2922 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- canon idem, page 111.
- criterion idem, page 184.
- rule idem, page 725.
- standard idem, page 810.
- test idem, page 863.