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crisis
Crisis comes from Latin crisis, from Greek κρίσις ‘a separating, decision, judgment’, from κρίνω ‘to pick out, decide’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκρίνωkrínō‘pick out’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκρίσιςkrísis‘a separating’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrisis
- Englishearliest quotation 1929crisis
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκρίνωkrínō‘pick out’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEκρίσιςkrísis‘a separating’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcrisis
- Englishearliest quotation 1929crisis
Earliest quotation: 1929, D.H. Lawrence: “Connie found it impossible to come to her crisis…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’
certain, secretary, secret, criminal, crime, discrimination, discretion, critique, riddle, discrete, discriminate, hypocrite, discreet, discern, endocrine, excrement, excretion, incriminate, rime, incrimination, certitude, excrete, ridder, recrimination, criterium, 46 more
through Ancient Greek κρίνω ‘pick out, choose, decide, judge’
through Ancient Greek κρίσις ‘a separating, power of distinguishing,…’
Today it means
noun A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek κρίνω / crisis