κριτήριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρῐτήρ (kritḗr, “interpreter”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), from κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I discern, judge”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kri.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/ → /kriˈti.ri.on/ → /kriˈti.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kri.tɛ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kriˈte̝.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kriˈti.ri.on/

Noun

κρῐτήρῐον • (kritḗrion) n (genitive κρῐτηρῐ́ου); second declension

1. means of judging, criterion, test, standard
2. court, tribunal
3. lawsuit

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κρῐτήρῐον; τοῦ κρῐτηρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[1], 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.