Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κρίννω ‎(krínnō) Aeolic

Verb

κρῑ́νω • ‎(krī́nō)

1. (transitive) To separate, divide, part, distinguish between two things or people or among a group of things or people
2. (transitive) To order, arrange
3. To inquire, investigate
4. To select, choose, prefer
5. (transitive) To decide a dispute or contest, with accusative of the contest or dispute, or accusative of a person involved in the contest or dispute; (intransitive) to pass judgement, come to a decision
   1. (middle voice, passive) To have a contest decided
   2. (middle voice and passive) To contend, dispute, quarrel
6. To decide or judge [+accusative and infinitive = that something does something], [+accusative and accusative = that something is something]
7. To discern between good and bad
8. To judge, pronounce
9. To bring to court, accuse
10. To pass sentence on, condemn, criticize

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• κρίνω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κρίνω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κρίνω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κρίνω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κρίνω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2919”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• BDAG
• 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

Greek

Verb

κρίνω • ‎(kríno) ‎(simple past έκρινα, passive form κρίνομαι)

1. judge, assess, decide

Conjugation

Related terms

• κρίση f ‎(krísi, “crisis”)