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χρῆσις

chresis

oppose à χρῆμα comme terme abstrait : c

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Letter 4 1 · 12.15/10k
Enchiridion 4 · 8.07/10k
Letter 2 1 · 7.84/10k
Answer to Philip's Letter 1 · 7.76/10k
Against the Sophists 1 · 7.55/10k
Cleitophon 1 · 6.46/10k
Politics 36 · 5.51/10k
Eudemian Ethics 14 · 5.37/10k
Discourses 36 · 4.85/10k
De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. χρῆσις · chrēsis — Chantraine

3. χρῆσις Î. s'oppose à χρῆμα comme terme abstrait : c'est « l’usage qu'on fait + de ce à quoi on a recours, avec des acceptions diversifiées : au sens général (Pi. Ο, 11,2, N. 1,43, Démocr. 242, Hp., Th. PI, X., D., Arist.), « relations avec quelqu'un, commerce d'amitié », cf. déjà χρεία (Isoc. Ep. 3,14, Arist.), tardivement « usage grammatical » (DH,, A.D.); en liaison avec χρήσασθαι «emprunter », χρῆσις semprunt» … — [Chantraine, s.v. χρῆσις, p. 1295]

2. χρῆσις · chrēsis — LSJ

I employment, use, use, practice, uses, advantages, uses

employment, use made of a thing, ἀνέμων Pi. O. 11(10).2; χρημάτων Democr. 282; οἰκίας Pl. Erx. 394d, cf. SIG 987.33 (Chios, iv B. C.); τὴν κατʼ ἀξίαν χ. ποιοῦνται ἑκάστῳ (fort. leg. ἑκάστου) Iamb. Protr. 5; use, practice, Hp. VM 4; in pl., uses, advantages, Pi. N. 1.30; αἱ ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ χ. the uses of war, X. Cyr. 8.5.7; αἱ πολιτικαὶ χ. Arist. Pol. 1267a23; opp. κτῆσις, Pl. Mx. 238b, Arist. EN 1098b32, Cic. Fam. 7.29.1; opp. πώλησις, X. Oec. 3.9.

2 usefulness, so as to become useful, useful

usefulness, Th. 7.5; opp. ἀχρηστία, Pl. R. 333d; ἐς χρῆσιν κρατύνεσθαι so as to become useful, Hp. Art. 27; ἔχειν χρῆσιν to be useful, D. 11.8.

3 intimacy, acquaintance, familiar

intimacy, acquaintance, ἡ οἰκειότης καὶ ἡ χ. [τῆς πόλεως] Isoc. Ep. 2.14; ἡ χ. ἡ πρὸς ἀλλήλους Arist. Pol. 1280a36; αἱ οἴκοι χρήσεις Isoc. 19.11; ἡ τῶν ἀφροδισίων χ. Pl. Lg. 841a, Arist. HA 581b13, cf. Pol. 1262a34 (pl.), Ep.Rom. 1.26; τὰ ἐν χρήσει familiar objects, Plot. 4.4.37.

4 usage, example, passage

Gramm., usage, of words, ἡ ἐξαλλαγὴ τῆς συνήθους χ. D.H. Amm. 2.3; ἀναστρέφων τὰς χ. ib. 2, cf. A.D. Synt. 119.24, al.; ἡ Πλάτωνος χ. Id. Pron. 72.18; in concrete sense, example of a word or use, πυκνῶς αἱ χ. παρὰ Αἰολεῦσιν ib. 66.3; passage cited, f. l. for κρίσει in D.H. Rh. 4.3; indicated by the symbol [ΧΡ ligature], Anon. Oxy. 1611.56 (iii A. D.); [ΧΡ ligature] Ἀριστοφάνους (referring to Av. 1181) An.Ox. 2.452.

II oracular response, bidding

(χράω (B) A), oracular response, ἀπὸ κείνου χρήσιος at his bidding, Pi. O. 13.76.

III lending, loan

(χράω (B) B), lending, loan, Arist. EN 1131a4, Plb. 31.23.4, Ps.-Phoc. 106.

In the wild

χρῆσις · chrēsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2138)
χρῆσις · chrēsis Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 2)
χρήσεις · chrēseis Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 155)
χρῆσις · chrēsis Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 200)
χρήσεως · chrēseōs Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 26)
χρήσεως · chrēseōs Aristotle, Economics 1345a (DIORISIS sentence 102)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χρῆσις (scan p. 1295; entry #8812).

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