Illustrations of English words derived from the Greek in the New Testament.
By Gaylon West.
History of English word crisis (n.)
early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English.
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English derived words: criterion = Grk. kriterion “judging, standard”
recrement = re + cernere (sift,separate) cranny = fissure diacritic = dia + krinein (separate, judge) excrement = ex + cerenere =“sift out, discharge” riddle from krinein “to separate, distinguish, decide” decree = de + cernere (sift,separate) discern = dis + cernere (sift,separate) secret = se + cernere (sift,separate) certain = cernere (sift,separate) concern = com + cernere (sift,separate) crime = cernere (sift,separate) critic = kritikos, from krinein (separate, judge) critical = critic + al concert = com + cernere (sift,separate) hypocrisy = hypo-krisis = under + “sift, decide”
Thayer Definition:
1) a separating, sundering, separation
1a) a trial, contest
2) selection
3) judgment
3a) opinion or decision given concerning anything
3a1) especially concerning justice and injustice, right or wrong
3b) sentence of condemnation, damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment
4) the college of judges (a tribunal of seven men in the several cities of Palestine; as distinguished from the Sanhedrin, which had its seat at Jerusalem)
5) right, justice
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: perhaps a primitive word
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