Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xristós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xristós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xɾistós/

Proper noun

Χρῑστός • ‎(Khrīstós) m ‎(genitive χριστοῦ); second declension

1. Messiah or Christ, an epithet of Jesus of Nazareth

Inflection

Derived terms

• Χριστιανός ‎(Khristianós)

Synonyms

• Μεσσίας ‎(Messías)

Descendants

• English: Christ
• French: Christ
• Greek: Χριστός ‎(Christós)
• Italian: Cristo
• Latin: Christus
• Polish: Chrystus
• Russian: Христо́с ‎(Xristós)
• Spanish: Cristo
• Bulgarian: Христос ‎(Hristos)

References

• Χριστός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «Χριστός» 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
• “G5547”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Proper noun

Χριστός • ‎(Christós) m

1. (Christianity) Jesus Christ (the Messiah named Jesus)

Declension

Related terms

• χριστιανός m ‎(christianós, “Christian”)
• χριστιανή f ‎(christianí, “Christian”)
• χριστιανικός ‎(christianikós, “Christian”) (adjective)
• χριστιανισμός m ‎(christianismós, “Christianity”)
• χριστιανοσύνη m ‎(christianosýni, “Christendom”)

See also

• Χρίστος m ‎(Chrístos, “Christos”) (male given name)