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/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
τοῖν κρᾰστέοιν toîn krastéoin |
ταῖς κρᾰ́στεσῐ / κρᾰ́στεσῐν taîs krástesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κρᾰ́στῐν tḕn krástin |
τὼ κρᾰ́στει tṑ 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
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