Crisis is a greek word

кризис

  • 1
    κρίση

    1)

    эк

    кризис;

    κυβερνητική κρίση — правительственный кризис;

    κρίση στέγης ( — или κατοικίας) — жилищный кризис;

    κρίση υπερπαραγωγής — кризис перепроизводства;

    2) кризис, перелом;

    η κρίση της αρρώστιας — кризис в болезни;

    3)

    мед.

    приступ (боли и т. п.); припадок; криз;

    4) способность суждения, рассуждения; суждение (тж. лог.), мнение;

    σωστή κρίσ — правильное суждение, рассуждение;

    έχω κρίσ — быть рассудительным;

    5) церк, божий суд;

    § κρίσ της ιστορίας — суд истории

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > κρίση

  • 2
    ευκρινης

    2

        1) обособленный, раздельный

        οὐκ εὐ. πρὸς τέν ἀκοήν Arst. — неразличимый на слух, плохо слышный

        2) ясно видимый, прозрачный

        3) ясный, отчетливый

        4) приведенный в порядок, упорядоченный

        5) переживший кризис (болезни), выздоравливающий

    Древнегреческо-русский словарь > ευκρινης

  • 3
    κρισις

        

    ,

    ион.

    ιος ἥ (

    dat. κρίσι)

        1) разделение, различение

        2) суждение, мнение

        3) суд, решение, приговор

        4) суд, судебное разбирательство

        τὸ μετέχειν κρίσεως καὴ ἀρχῆς

    Arst.

    — участие в судебной и административной жизни;

        προκαλεῖν τινα ἐς κρίσιν περί τινος

    Thuc.

    — привлекать кого-л. к судебной ответственности за что-л.;

        5) состязание, спор

        6) спор, тяжба

        7) выбор, избрание

         8) исход, окончание:

    (τὸ Μηδικὸν ἔργον) δυοῖν ναυμαχίαιν καὴ πεζομαχίαιν ταχεῖαν τέν κρίσιν ἔσχεν Thuc. исход (персидской) войны был быстро решен двумя морскими и двумя сухопутными сражениями; μάχη κρίσιν οὐ λαβοῦσα Plut. безрезультатное сражение

        9) (ис)толкование

        10) переломный момент, кризис

    Древнегреческо-русский словарь > κρισις

  • 4
    αύξων

    ουσα

    , ον увеличивающийся, нарастающий, растущий;

    αύξων αριθμός — а) порядковый номер; — б) серийный номер;

    η οικονομική κρίσις βαίνει αύξουσα экономический кризис нарастает

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > αύξων

  • 5
    νεκρώνω

    1) умерщвлять;
    2) анестезировать;
    3) притуплять, ослаблять (боль);
    4) вызывать онемение;
    5)

    перен.

    вызывать застой, парализовать;
    η κρίση νέκρωσε το εμπόριο кризис парализовал торговлю;
    2.

    αμετ.

    1) замирать (о торговле, работе и т. п.);

    2) помертветь, νεκρώνομαι прям., перен. — омертветь

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > νεκρώνω

  • 6
    παροδικός

    1) временный; преходящий;

    παροδική κρίση — временный кризис;

    2) мимолётный, кратковременный;

    παροδικές βροχές — кратковременные дожди

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > παροδικός

  • 7
    σοβώ

    (ε)

    αμετ.

    быть чреватым, угрожать;

    надвигаться, предстоять;

    σοβούσα πολιτική κρίσις — неизбежный политический кризис

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > σοβώ

  • 8
    υπερπαραγωγή

    κρίση υπερπαραγωγής — кризис перепроизводства

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > υπερπαραγωγή

  • 9
    υπουργικός

    υπουργικό συμβούλιο — совет министров;

    ο πρόεδρος τού υπουργικού συμβουλίου — премьер-министр; — председатель совета министров;

    υπουργικό χαρτοφυλάκιο — министерский портфель;

    υπουργική κρίση — правительственный кризис

    Νέα ελληνική-Ρωσικά λεξικό > υπουργικός

  • 10
    κρίσις

    ἡ κρίσις, εως суждение, решение (ср. кризис — решающий момент)

    Αρχαία Ελληνικά-Ρωσικά λεξικό > κρίσις

  • 11
    κρίση

    1) кризис;

    2) способность рассуждения, мнение;

    3) Божий суд, Страшный суд:

    Η εκκλησία λεξικό (Церковный словарь Назаренко) > κρίση

См. также в других словарях:

  • КРИЗИС — (греч. krisis, от krinein рассуждать). 1) перелом, переворот, решительная пора переходного состояния. 2) в медицине: кризис или перелом болезни, день, когда болезнь усиливается или уменьшается, принимает другой вид и характер. 3) кризис в… …   Словарь иностранных слов русского языка

  • КРИЗИС — КРИЗИС, кризиса, муж. (греч. krisis решение). 1. Резкое изменение, крутой перелом. 2. Периодически наступающее в капиталистической экономике явление перепроизводства товаров, ведущее к разорению мелких производителей, к сокращению производства и… …   Толковый словарь Ушакова

  • Кризис —  Кризис  ♦ Crise    Резкое изменение, происходящее помимо нашей воли. Кризис может быть благотворным или неблаготворным, но он почти всегда сопряжен с трудностями и протекает болезненно. Кризис связан с принятием решения или вынесением оценки.… …   Философский словарь Спонвиля

  • кризис — См. опасность …   Словарь синонимов

  • кризис — миновал • действие, субъект, окончание наступил кризис • действие, субъект, начало переживать кризис • действие, объект преодолеть кризис • победа …   Глагольной сочетаемости непредметных имён

  • кризис — Состояние, вызванное столкновением личности с препятствиями на пути удовлетворения важных жизненных целей (фрустрацией основных ценностных установок), в случае, когда подобные препятствия не могут быть преодолены обычными способами разрешения… …   Большая психологическая энциклопедия

  • КРИЗИС — муж. лат. * перелом, переворот, решительная пора переходного состоянья. Кризис или перелом болезни; кризис или переворот денежный. Врачи зовут кризисом внезапный переворот в болезни, напр. пот, рвоту, кровотеченье, а лизис, постепенное разрешенье …   Толковый словарь Даля

  • КРИЗИС —     КРИЗИС (в науке) ситуация, в которой научное сообщество ставит под сомнение концептуальные и методологиче     ские основания парадигмы научного исследования. В ситуации кризиса разрушаются устойчивые стереотипы восприятия научных данных,… …   Философская энциклопедия

  • Кризис — (от греч. krisis решение, поворотный пункт, исход) 1) резкий, крутой перелом в чем либо, тяжелое переходное состояние (напр., духовный кризис); острое затруднение с чем либо (напр., с производством или сбытом товаров); тяжелое положение; 2)… …   Политология. Словарь.

  • Кризис — (от гр. krisis решение, поворотный пункт, исход; англ. crisis) резкий, крутой перелом; тяжелое переходное состояние какого либо явления, социального института, сферы гос ной или общественной жизни, напр., политический К., финансовый К. и т.п. См …   Энциклопедия права

  • КРИЗИС — (от греч. krisis решение поворотный пункт, исход),..1) резкий, крутой перелом в чем либо, тяжелое переходное состояние (напр., духовный кризис)2)] Острое затруднение с чем либо (напр., с производством или сбытом товаров); тяжелое положение …   Большой Энциклопедический словарь

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A crisis (PL: crises; ADJ: critical) is either any event or period that will (or might) lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loosely, a crisis is a testing time for an emergency.

Etymology[edit]

The English word crisis was borrowed from the Latin, which in turn was borrowed from the Greek κρίσις krisis ‘discrimination, decision, crisis’.[1] The noun is derived from the verb κρίνω krinō, which means ‘distinguish, choose, decide’.[2]

In English, crisis was first used in a medical context, for the time in the development of a disease when a change indicates either recovery or death, that is, a turning-point. It was also used for a major change in the development of a disease.[1] By the mid-seventeenth century, it took on the figurative meaning of a «vitally important or decisive stage in the progress of anything», especially a period of uncertainty or difficulty,[1] without necessarily having the implication of a decision-point.

Definition[edit]

A crisis is often linked to the concept of psychological stress and used to suggest a frightening or fraught experience. In general, crisis is the situation of a «complex system» (family, economy, society. Note that simple systems do not enter crises. We can speak about a crisis of moral values, an economical or political crisis, but not a motor crisis) when the system functions poorly (the system still functions, but does not break down), an immediate decision is necessary to stop the further disintegration of the system, but the causes of the dysfunction are not immediately identified (the causes are so many, or unknown, that it is impossible to take a rational, informed decision to reverse the situation).[3]

The crisis has several defining characteristics. Seeger, Sellnow, and Ulmer[4] say that crises have four defining characteristics that are «specific, unexpected, and non-routine events or series of events that [create] high levels of uncertainty and threat or perceived threat to an organization’s high priority goals.» Thus the first three characteristics are that the event is

1. unexpected (i.e., a surprise)
2. creates uncertainty
3. is seen as a threat to important goals
Venette[5] argues that «crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained.» Therefore the fourth defining quality is the need for change. If change is not needed, the event could more accurately be described as a failure.

Apart from natural crises that are inherently unpredictable (volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, etc.) most of the crises that we face are created by man. Hence the requirements of their being ‘unexpected’ depend upon man failing to note the onset of crisis conditions. Some of our inability to recognize crises before they become dangerous is due to denial and other psychological responses [6] that provide succor and protection for our emotions.

A different set of reasons for failing to notice the onset of crises is that we allow ourselves to be ‘tricked’ into believing that we are doing something for reasons that are false. In other words, we are doing the wrong things for the right reasons. For example, we might believe that we are solving the threats of climate change by engaging in economic trading activity that has no real impact on the climate. Mitroff and Silvers [7] posit two reasons for these mistakes, which they classify as Type 3 (inadvertent) and Type 4 (deliberate) errors.

The effect of our inability to attend to the likely results of our actions can result in a crisis.

From this perspective, we might usefully learn that failing to understand the real causes of our difficulties is likely to lead to repeated downstream ‘blowback’. Where states are concerned, Michael Brecher, based on case studies of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project, suggested a different way of defining crisis as conditions are perceptions held by the highest level decision-makers of the actor concerned:[8]
1. threat to basic values, with a simultaneous or subsequent
2. high probability of involvement in military hostilities, and the awareness of
3. finite time for response to the external value threat.

Chinese word for «crisis»[edit]

It is frequently said in Western motivational speaking that the Chinese word for «crisis» is composed of two Chinese characters signifying «danger» and «opportunity» respectively. This is, however, considered by linguists to be a misperception.[9]

Political crisis[edit]

Economic[edit]

An economic crisis is a sharp transition to a recession. See for example 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002), South American economic crisis of 2002, Economic crisis of Cameroon. Crisis theory is a central achievement in the conclusions of Karl Marx’s critique of Capital.

A financial crisis may be a banking crisis or currency crisis.

Environmental[edit]

Crises pertaining to the environment include:

Environmental disaster[edit]

An environmental disaster is a disaster that is due to human activity and should not be confused with natural disasters (see below). In this case, the impact of humans’ alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences. It can include the deaths of animals (including humans) and plant systems, or severe disruption of human life, possibly requiring migration.

Natural disaster[edit]

A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard (e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide) which moves from potential in to an active phase, and as a result affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, structural, and human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster, their resilience.[10] This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: «disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability».[11] A natural hazard will hence never result in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas.

For lists of natural disasters, see the list of disasters or the list of deadliest natural disasters.

Endangered species[edit]

An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in number, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters. An endangered species is usually a taxonomic species, but may be another evolutionary significant unit. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has classified 38 percent of the 44,837 species assessed by 2008 as threatened.[12]

International[edit]

For information about crises in the field of study in international relations, see crisis management and international crisis. In this context, a crisis can be loosely defined as a situation where there is a perception of threat, heightened anxiety, expectation of possible violence and the belief that any actions will have far-reaching consequences (Lebow, 7–10).

Personal[edit]

A personal crisis occurs when an individual can no longer cope with a situation.[13] This is preceded by events of an extraordinary nature triggering extreme tension and stress within an individual, i.e., the crisis, which then requires major decisions or actions to resolve. Crises can be triggered by a wide range of situations including, but not limited to, extreme weather conditions, sudden change in employment/financial state, medical emergencies, long-term illness, and social or familial turmoil. Crises are simply a change in the events that comprise the day-to-day life of a person and those in their close circle, such as the loss of a job, extreme financial hardship, substance addiction/abuse, and other situations that are life-altering and require action that is outside the «normal» daily routine. A person going through a crisis experiences a state of mental disequilibrium, in which the ego struggles to balance both internal and external demands.[14] In this case, said person resorts to coping mechanisms to deal with the stress. Various coping mechanisms include:[15]

  • High emotions (crying, physical withdrawal)
  • Defence mechanisms (denial, repression)
  • Making rash decisions
  • Acting out
  • Putting things on hold

In some cases, it is difficult for an individual undergoing a crisis to adapt to the situation. As it is outside of their normal range of functioning, it is common that one endures a struggle to control emotions. This lack of control can lead to suicidal tendencies, substance abuse, trouble with the law and general avoidance of resources available for help. One such resource used to aid an individual in crisis is their social support system, which can come in the form of family, friends, coworkers, or health professionals. It is important that a support system consists of people that the individual trusts. Although these support systems play a crucial role in aiding an individual through a crisis, they are also the underlying cause of two thirds of mental health crises.[15] The aforementioned mental health crises can include marital issues, abandonment, parental conflict and family struggles.

In order to aid someone in a crisis, it is crucial to be able to identify the signs that indicate they are undergoing an internal conflict. These signs, as well as the aforementioned coping mechanisms, include:[13][16]

  • Irrational and/or narrow thinking
  • Lowered attention span
  • Unclear motives
  • Disorganized approach to problem-solving
  • Resistance to communication
  • Inability to differentiate between large and small issues
  • Change/alteration to social networks

Ways to manage a crisis[edit]

As aforementioned, a crisis to this day can be overcome by implementing mechanisms such as: sleep, rejection, physical exercise, meditation and thinking. To assist individuals in regaining emotional equilibrium, intervention can be used. The overall goal of crisis intervention is to get the individual back to a pre-crisis level of functioning or higher with the help of a social support group. As said by Judith Swan, there’s a strong correlation between the client’s emotional balance and the trust in their support system in helping them throughout their crisis.[17] The steps of crisis intervention are: to assess the situation based on behavior patterns of the individual, decide what type of help is needed (make a plan of action), and finally to take action/intervention, based on the individual’s skills to regain equilibrium.[14] In the context of natural disasters and other climate change-related crises, emotional activation is common. Collective processing of emotional experiences is an important part of enabling individuals to increase in their resilience, leading to greater community engagement and a sense of belongingness. When appropriate support for emotional experiences is provided, climate change-induced emotions are adaptive.[18]

The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario proposed the ABC model for dealing with client’s interventions in crises:[19]

  1. Basic attending skills (making the person comfortable, remaining calm, etc.)
  2. Identifying the problem and therapeutic interaction (explore their perceptions, identify sources of emotional distress, identify impairments in behavioral functioning, use therapeutic interactions)
  3. Coping and negotiating (identify coping attempts, present alternative coping strategies, follow up post-crisis)

Benefits of listening in a crisis[edit]

Moreover, another method for helping individuals who are suffering in a crisis is active listening; it is defined as seeing circumstances from another perspective and letting the other person know that the negotiator (the helper) understands their perspective. Through this, they establish trust and rapport by demonstrating empathy, understanding, and objectivity in a non-judgmental way. It is important for the negotiator to listen to verbal and non-verbal reactions of the person in need, in order to be able to label the emotion that the individual is showing. Thus, this demonstrates that the helper is tuned in emotionally. Furthermore, there are other techniques that can be used to demonstrate active listening such as paraphrasing, silence, and reflecting or mirroring. The goal in active listening is to keep the person talking about their situation.[13]

In chaos theory[edit]

When the control parameter of a chaotic system is modified, the chaotic attractor touches an unstable
periodic orbit inside the basin of attraction inducing a sudden expansion in the attractor.
This phenomenon is termed as interior crisis in a chaotic system.

See also[edit]

  • Chinese word for «crisis»
  • Constitutional crisis
  • Coup d’état
  • Crisis state
  • Crisis management
  • Hostage crisis
  • Humanitarian crisis
  • Distress signal
    • Mayday
    • SOS
  • Ecological crisis
  • Energy crisis
  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • Mid-life crisis
  • Revolution
  • War
  • Crysis

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Oxford English Dictionary, 1893, s.v. ‘crisis’
  2. ^ Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek–English Lexicon, revised 1940, s.v. κρίσις, κρίνω
  3. ^ Bundy, J.; Pfarrer, M. D.; Short, C. E.; Coombs, W. T. (2017). «Crises and crisis management: Integration, interpretation, and research development». Journal of Management. 43 (6): 1661–1692. doi:10.1177/0149206316680030. S2CID 152223772.
  4. ^ Seeger, M. W.; Sellnow, T. L.; Ulmer, R. R. (1998). «Communication, organization, and crisis». Communication Yearbook. 21: 231–275. doi:10.1080/23808985.1998.11678952.
  5. ^ Venette, S. J. (2003). Risk communication in a High Reliability Organization: APHIS PPQ’s inclusion of risk in decision making. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Proquest Information and Learning.
  6. ^ Mitroff.I. (2005) Why some companies emerge stronger and better from a crisis, p36
  7. ^ Mitroff & Silvers, (2009) Dirty rotten strategies
  8. ^ Shlaim, Avi, The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948–1949: a study in crisis decision-making, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983, p.5
  9. ^ Mair, Victor H. (2005). «danger + opportunity ≠ crisis: How a misunderstanding about Chinese characters has led many astray». PinyinInfo.com. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  10. ^ G. Bankoff, G. Frerks, D. Hilhorst (eds.) (2003). Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People. ISBN 1-85383-964-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ B. Wisner; P. Blaikie; T. Cannon; I. Davis (2004). At Risk – Natural hazards, people’s vulnerability, and disasters. Wiltshire: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25216-4.
  12. ^ «Factsheet: The IUCN Red List a key conservation tool (2008)» (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
  13. ^ a b c Lanceley, F. J. (2003). On-Scene Guide for Crisis Negotiators, Second Edition (2nd ed.). London: CRC Press.
  14. ^ a b Woolley, N (1990). «Crisis theory: A paradigm of effective intervention with families of critically ill people». Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15 (12): 1402–1408. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01782.x. PMID 2283452.
  15. ^ a b Nursing Best Practice Guideline: Shaping the future of Nursing. (Electronic book). Appendix C — Assessment of coping skills and support systems. (Page 53). Executive Director: Doris Grispun, RN, MScN, Ph.D. Date: August 2002.
  16. ^ Vecchi, G. M. (2009). Conflict and crisis communication. Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, 12(2), 32-29.
  17. ^ Swan, J., & Hamilton, P.M. (2014). Mental health crisis management. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc.
  18. ^ Kieft, J.; Bendell, J (2021). «The responsibility of communicating difficult truths about climate influenced societal disruption and collapse: an introduction to psychological research». Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) Occasional Papers. 7: 1–39.
  19. ^ Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. (2006). Crisis intervention. Toronto, ON: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario.

Further reading[edit]

  • Borodzicz, E. P. 2005 ‘Risk, Crisis and Security Management’ John Wileys, Chichester. ISBN 0-470-86704-3
  • Jäger, Johannes. «Crisis» (2012). University Bielefeld — Center for InterAmerican Studies.
  • Lebow, RN, Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis: 1981. The Rancho Bernardo Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-2311-0.
  • Takis Fotopoulos: «The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy» Special Issue, «The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy», 2005.
  • Rüdiger Graf, Konrad Jarausch. “Crisis” in Contemporary History and Historiography in «Docupedia Zeitgeschichte», March 27, 2017.

External links[edit]

Look up crisis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

  • Media related to Crises at Wikimedia Commons

As per this KC Chakrabarty speech the origination comes from a Greek word Krisis 🙂

Let me begin first by attempting to define a crisis. The word crisis originates from the Greek word ‘krisis’ – which means ‘decisive moment’. The Oxford dictionary defines a crisis as “a time of intense difficulty or danger” while the Cambridge dictionary describes it as “a situation that has reached an extremely difficult or dangerous point; a time of great disagreement, uncertainty or suffering”. The term financial crisis, to be more specific, is broadly applied to a range of situations which encompass banking panics, disorderly functioning of markets, stock market collapses, bursting of asset price bubbles, currency collapses, sovereign defaults, amongst others.

I should have checked this one. Most English words come from Greek or Latin origin. Thanks to Norman Lewis for educating me a bit on this.

I am not sure whether there is a bigger tribute to Greece crisis than this. It clearly has become mother of all the sovereign crisis we have seen so far. It may not be the size as such, but the way they have fooled people (so many of them) into believing it is a developed country, worthy member of Euro etc has simply been amazing..

Other than this, speech is pretty good. Summarizes the basics of crisis framework really well.. a good read…


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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute), from κρίνω (krínō, pick out, choose, decide, judge).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹaɪsɪs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪsɪs

Noun[edit]

crisis (plural crises)

  1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  2. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
  3. (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
  4. (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person’s life.

    I’m having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.

  5. (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Derived terms[edit]

  • Asian songbird crisis
  • behavioral crisis
  • climate crisis
  • crisis actor
  • crisis center
  • crisis hotline
  • crisis intervention
  • crisis line
  • crisis management
  • crisis response team
  • crisis-ridden
  • currency crisis
  • economic crisis
  • energy crisis
  • epistemic crisis
  • European debt crisis
  • existential crisis
  • financial crisis
  • healing crisis
  • humanitarian crisis
  • identity crisis
  • international crisis
  • mid-life crisis
  • midlife crisis
  • personal crisis
  • psychedelic crisis
  • psychological crisis
  • quarter-life crisis
  • renal crisis
  • replication crisis
  • scissors crisis
  • software crisis

[edit]

  • criterion
  • critic
  • critical
  • criticize
  • critique

Translations[edit]

crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point

  • Armenian: ճգնաժամ (hy) (čgnažam)
  • Bulgarian: кри́за (bg) f (kríza)
  • Catalan: crisi (ca) f
  • Czech: rozhodující (cs) okamžik (cs) m
  • Danish: vendepunkt n, krise (da) c
  • Dutch: crisis (nl) f, keerpunt (nl) n
  • Finnish: kriisi (fi)
  • Galician: crise f
  • German: Krise (de) f
  • Greek: κρίση (el) f (krísi)
  • Hungarian: krízis (hu)
  • Ido: krizo (io)
  • Japanese: please add this translation if you can
  • Malayalam: പ്രതിസന്ധി (ml) (pratisandhi)
  • Portuguese: crise (pt) f
  • Romanian: moment crucial n, toi (ro) n
  • Russian: кри́зис (ru) m (krízis), перело́м (ru) m (perelóm), поворо́тный пункт (ru) m (povorótnyj punkt)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: прѐкретница f
    Roman: prèkretnica (sh) f
  • Slovak: rozhodujúci okamih m
  • Spanish: crisis (es) f

sudden change in the course of a disease

  • Bulgarian: кри́за (bg) f (kríza)
  • Catalan: crisi (ca) f
  • Czech: krize (cs) f
  • Danish: vendepunkt n, krise (da) c
  • Dutch: crisis (nl) f
  • Finnish: kriisi (fi)
  • German: Krise (de) f
  • Greek: κρίση (el) f (krísi)
  • Irish: aothú m
  • Italian: emergenza (it) f
  • Japanese: 分利 (ja) (ぶんり, bunri)
  • Portuguese: crise (pt) f
  • Romanian: criză (ro) f
  • Russian: кри́зис (ru) m (krízis), криз (ru) m (kriz)
  • Slovak: kríza f
  • Spanish: crisis (es) f
  • Turkish: nöbet (tr)

traumatic or stressful change in a person’s life

  • Arabic: أَزْمَة‎ f (ʔazma)
  • Catalan: crisi (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 危機危机 (zh) (wēijī)
  • Czech: krize (cs) f
  • Danish: krise (da) c
  • Faroese: kreppa f
  • Finnish: kriisi (fi)
  • French: crise (fr) f
  • Galician: crise f
  • Georgian: კრიზისი (ḳrizisi)
  • German: Krise (de) f
  • Greek: κρίση (el) f (krísi)
  • Hebrew: מַשְׁבֵּר (he) m (mashbér)
  • Hungarian: krízis (hu)
  • Icelandic: kreppa (is)
  • Ido: krizo (io)
  • Italian: crisi (it) f
  • Japanese: 危機 (ja) (きき, kiki), クライシス (kuraishisu)
  • Maori: maiki
  • Portuguese: crise (pt) f
  • Romanian: criză (ro) f
  • Russian: кри́зис (ru) m (krízis)
  • Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f, gàbhadh m
  • Slovak: kríza f
  • Swedish: kris (sv), livskris
  • Turkish: çöküntü (tr)

Further reading[edit]

  • crisis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • “crisis”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • crisis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

crisis f (plural crisis)

  1. crisis

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkɾi.zis/
  • Rhymes: -izis

Noun[edit]

crisis

  1. plural of crisi

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkri.zɪs/
  • Hyphenation: cri‧sis

Noun[edit]

crisis f (plural crises or crisissen, diminutive crisisje n)

  1. crisis
  2. financial crisis

Derived terms[edit]

  • coronacrisis
  • crisette
  • crisisbeheersing
  • crisisjaar
  • crisismanagement
  • crisismanager
  • crisissituatie
  • eurocrisis
  • identiteitscrisis
  • stikstofcrisis
  • vertrouwenscrisis
  • vluchtelingencrisis

[edit]

  • kritiek
  • kritisch

Descendants[edit]

  • Indonesian: krisis

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin crisis.

Noun[edit]

crisis f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)

  1. crisis, emergency; urgent situation

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute), from κρίνω (krínō, pick out, choose, decide, judge).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾisis/ [ˈkɾi.sis]
  • Audio (Latin America) (file)
  • Rhymes: -isis
  • Syllabification: cri‧sis

Noun[edit]

crisis f (plural crisis)

  1. crisis
  2. attack; fit

Derived terms[edit]

  • anticrisis
  • crisis de comportamiento
  • crisis de migraña

[edit]

  • crítico

Further reading[edit]

  • “crisis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

The economic crisis in Greece has many ironies, one of which is that an appalling fiscal mess, left by a very right wing government, is the responsibility of a left wing government to clear up. It is the same Augean task (to stick with Greek cultural heritage) as will face whoever takes over from this very right wing government in the UK.

Being nothing but a lowly party member, I cannot pretend that the Mervyn King scenario had not occurred to me too. I had considered that a Cameron administration, with a tiny majority, propped up by some Northern Irish bigots, would inflict such pain on the majority of our society that, before falling after a few years, they would put the Tories out for a generation at least.

In so doing, they would greatly enhance the cause of Scottish and Welsh independence, and with the Lib Dems the second most popular party and the challenger in the large majority of Tory seats, the Tory demise would sweep in a radical change in more promising circumstances. All that had occurred to me.

But it was of course the Thatcher scenario. She was the least popular Prime Minister ever. But then she engineered into a massively popular war the crass Argentinian invasion of the Falklands , and never looked back. The Tories could pull such a trick again. Accompanying another war, they might crank up still further the appalling reduction of our civil liberties.

On top of which we need to pin down electoral reform now, while there is the best ever chance. PR and a 100% elected House of Lords will transform the political landscape of the UK for ever. Let’s look for an outcome that secures that – it is more important than the pleasant prospect of watching Cameron fall on his arse. So I am out again today campaigning for the Lib Dems. This is the first chance to change the two party system for a generation.

Back to Greece. The European ideal – which at its internationalist core I regard as a good thing – is suffering from overreach. The Eurocracy have always been expansionist, and taken the view that to secure expansion is more important than the detail. Thus Greece and Portugal in particular were admitted to the Euro when everyone knew that it was a fudge, and that their dim relationship with the convergence criteria was based on fake statistics.

The same is true with the accession criteria, which in areas like corruption, transparency and the rule of law Bulgaria and Romania were deemed to meet, when plainly they did not. On human rights, dreadful treatment of their Roma was ignored. All that too will come back to haunt the Eu.

The problem with faking the convergence criteria, and the fundamental flaw in the Euro, is that there is no real mechanism to enforce a broadly similar fiscal policy across the single currency. The system of peer review relies on the (in this case Greek) government’s own falsified statistics, and has few teeth even if it had good information. The result in effect is that individual countries can practice free quantitive easing – just print themselves money. This devalues the money everyone else has in their pocket, as the Eurozone is now noticing rather sharply.

We are already lending Greece more money through the IMF than the amount we would need to give if we were part of the Eurozone rescue package. I do not think these loans will halt the markets, who have identified the fundamental weakness in the Euro’s structure and will go for it mercilessly.

There is much speculation that Europe should boot Greece out of the Euro and we should see a return of the drachma. I think broadly that should happen. But there is an alternative to the return of the drachma – which Greece would simply create far too much of, and would soon have toilet paper status. Greece could be kicked out of the Euro, but still use the Euro as its currency, merely losing the ability to create it, with the government having to raise the money by bonds and import cash physically from another European state. That is on a more institutionalised and thorough scale the way the dollar works in countries with junk economies. Once Greece has really reformed it can rejoin the Euro properly.

Humiliating, but it is actually a very Greek idea. King Croesus’ Lydia was the first state whose currency was so sound it was used internationally. It remains a famously good idea over millennia.

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