κριτής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρῐ-, the root of κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to decide, judge”), +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kri.tɛ̌ːs/ → /kriˈtis/ → /kriˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kri.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kriˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kriˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kriˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kriˈtis/

Noun

κρῐτής • (kritḗs) m (genitive κρῐτοῦ); first declension

1. umpire
2. judge

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κρῐτής; τοῦ κρῐτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κρῐτής ho kritḗs	τὼ κρῐτᾱ́ tṑ kritā́	οἱ κρῐταί hoi kritaí
Genitive	τοῦ κρῐτοῦ toû kritoû	τοῖν κρῐταῖν toîn kritaîn	τῶν κρῐτῶν tôn kritôn
Dative	τῷ κρῐτῇ tôi kritêi	τοῖν κρῐταῖν toîn kritaîn	τοῖς κρῐταῖς toîs kritaîs
Accusative	τὸν κρῐτήν tòn kritḗn	τὼ κρῐτᾱ́ tṑ kritā́	τοὺς κρῐτᾱ́ς toùs kritā́s
Vocative	κρῐτᾰ́ kritá	κρῐτᾱ́ kritā́	κρῐταί kritaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲕⲣⲓⲧⲏⲥ (kritēs)
• Greek: κριτής (kritís)

Further reading

• “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κριτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κριτής 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
• G2923 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κριτής in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • censor idem, page 122.
  • interpreter idem, page 452.
  • judge idem, page 465.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs). By surface analysis, κρί(νω) (krí(no)) +‎ -τής (-tís).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾiˈtis/
• Hyphenation: κρι‧τής

Noun

κριτής • (kritís) m (plural κριτές)

1. judge (a person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question)
2. judge (a person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	κριτής (kritís)	κριτές (krités)
genitive	κριτή (krití)	κριτών (kritón)
accusative	κριτή (krití)	κριτές (krités)
vocative	κριτή (krití)	κριτές (krités)

Related terms

• see: κρίνω (kríno)