chrisma

chrisma

1. plural of chrismon

• Hamrics, archism, charism

• crisma

From Ancient Greek χρῖσμᾰ (khrîsmă, “unction”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰriːs.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkriz.ma]

chrīsma n (genitive chrīsmatis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) anointing, unction

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• → Alemannic German: Chrisam
• Catalan: crisma
• → English: chrism
• French: chrême
• Galician: crisma
• → Icelandic: krisma
• → Indonesian: krisma
• Italian: crisma
• → Middle High German: chrismo
  • → Old Czech: křižmo
    • Czech: křižmo
    • → Polish: krzyżmo
      • → Ukrainian: кри́жмо (krýžmo)
• ⇒ Old French: cresme, creme (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: crisma
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кри̏зма

  Latin script: krȉzma

• Spanish: crisma
• → Swedish: krisma

• “chrisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chrisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.