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κρίνω

Pronunciation: /krǐː.nɔː/

“κρίνω” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 12 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to separate, divide, part, distinguish between two things or people or among a group of things or people
  2. to order, arrange
  3. to inquire, investigate
  4. to select, choose, prefer
  5. to have a contest decided
  6. to contend, dispute, quarrel
  7. to decide or judge
  8. to discern between good and bad
  9. to judge, pronounce
  10. to bring to court, accuse
  11. to pass sentence on, condemn, criticize
  12. to secrete

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō, from Proto-Indo-European *kri-n-yé-ti, from *krey- (“to sift, separate”). Cognates include English rinse, Latin cernō (“to separate, discern”), and Welsh gogrynu. The root of the verb was originally short, but the Attic–Ionic–Doric present tense κρῑ́νω (krī́nō) has a long ῑ (ī) because the vowel of the root was compensatorily lengthened after the shortening of…

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