χρῆμα
See also: χρήμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formed from the base of χράομαι (khráomai, “want, need”) + -μα (-ma).
Noun
χρῆμᾰ • (khrêma) n (genitive χρήμᾰτος); third declension
- need; a thing that one needs or uses
- goods, property
- money
- thing, matter, affair
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ χρῆμᾰ; τοῦ χρήμᾰτος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ χρῆμᾰ tò khrêma | τὼ χρήμᾰτε tṑ khrḗmate | τᾰ̀ χρήμᾰτᾰ tà khrḗmata | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χρήμᾰτος toû khrḗmatos | τοῖν χρημᾰ́τοιν toîn khrēmátoin | τῶν χρημᾰ́των tôn khrēmátōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χρήμᾰτῐ tôi khrḗmati | τοῖν χρημᾰ́τοιν toîn khrēmátoin | τοῖς χρήμᾰσῐ / χρήμᾰσῐν toîs khrḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ χρῆμᾰ tò khrêma | τὼ χρήμᾰτε tṑ khrḗmate | τᾰ̀ χρήμᾰτᾰ tà khrḗmata | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χρῆμᾰ khrêma | χρήμᾰτε khrḗmate | χρήμᾰτᾰ khrḗmata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀχρημᾰτίᾱ (akhrēmatíā)
- χρηματαγωγός (khrēmatagōgós)
- χρηματίζω (khrēmatízō)
- χρηματικός (khrēmatikós)
- χρηματοδαίτης (khrēmatodaítēs)
- χρηματοποιός (khrēmatopoiós)
- χρηματουργία (khrēmatourgía)
- χρηματοφθορικός (khrēmatophthorikós)
- χρηματοφύλαξ (khrēmatophúlax)
Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲭⲣⲏⲙⲁ (khrēma)
- Greek: χρήμα (chríma)
Further reading
- “χρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χρῆμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χρῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χρῆμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χρῆμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5536 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.
- affair idem, page 16.
- article idem, page 42.
- circumstance idem, page 133.
- commodity idem, page 148.
- matter idem, page 518.
- subject idem, page 830.
- thing idem, page 867.