χρεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χρείη (khreíē) — Ionic
• χρέᾱ (khréā)

Etymology

From χρή (khrḗ, “it is necessary”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰrěː.aː/ → /ˈxri.a/ → /ˈxri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰrěː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxri.a/

Noun

χρείᾱ • (khreíā) f (genitive χρείᾱς); first declension

1. need, want, necessity
   1. want, poverty
2. business, purpose (especially military purpose)
   1. employment, function
3. use
   1. use, advantage, service
4. familiarity, intimacy
5. maxim

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χρείᾱ; τῆς χρείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χρείᾱ hē khreíā	τὼ χρείᾱ tṑ khreíā	αἱ χρεῖαι hai khreîai
Genitive	τῆς χρείᾱς tês khreíās	τοῖν χρείαιν toîn khreíain	τῶν χρειῶν tôn khreiôn
Dative	τῇ χρείᾳ têi khreíāi	τοῖν χρείαιν toîn khreíain	ταῖς χρείαις taîs khreíais
Accusative	τὴν χρείᾱν tḕn khreíān	τὼ χρείᾱ tṑ khreíā	τᾱ̀ς χρείᾱς tā̀s khreíās
Vocative	χρείᾱ khreíā	χρείᾱ khreíā	χρεῖαι khreîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “χρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χρεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χρεία 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
• “χρεία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5532 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.
  • acquaintance idem, page 8.
  • appeal idem, page 34.
  • application idem, page 36.
  • connection idem, page 161.
  • dearth idem, page 198.
  • demand idem, page 209.
  • desire idem, page 215.
  • entreaty idem, page 278.
  • exercise idem, page 291.
  • exigence idem, page 292.
  • familiarity idem, page 305.
  • friendship idem, page 345.
  • indulgence idem, page 435.
  • intercourse idem, page 449.
  • intimacy idem, page 454.
  • lack idem, page 473.
  • manipulation idem, page 512.
  • necessity idem, page 554.
  • need idem, page 554.
  • penury idem, page 604.
  • request idem, page 700.
  • requirement idem, page 700.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • stress idem, page 825.
  • suit idem, page 836.
  • urgency idem, page 939.
  • usage idem, page 940.
  • use idem, page 940.
  • utility idem, page 941.
  • want idem, page 961.
  • wish idem, page 983.
• 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