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

1. need; a thing that one needs or uses
2. goods, property
   1. money
3. thing, matter, affair

Declension

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[1], 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.