# crisis
## English
### Etymology

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

* IPA: /ˈkɹaɪsɪs/
* Audio (London):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪsɪs

### Noun

crisis (plural crises)
* A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
* An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
** 2011 January 25, Dave Clarke, “Panel says financial crisis avoidable”, in Reuters:The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters
** 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times‎:This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld.
* (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
* (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
    I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
* (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

#### Derived terms

* acrisia
* Asian songbird crisis
* behavioral crisis
* budget crisis
* climate crisis
* constitutional crisis
* crisis actor
* crisis center
* crisis hotline
* crisis intervention
* crisisless
* crisis line
* crisis management
* crisis response team
* crisis-ridden
* crisitunity
* currency crisis
* diabetic crisis
* ecocrisis
* economic crisis
* energy crisis
* epicrisis
* epistemic crisis
* Eurocrisis
* European debt crisis
* existential crisis
* financial crisis
* healing crisis
* humanitarian crisis
* identity crisis
* international crisis
* Messinian salinity crisis
* mid-life crisis
* midlife crisis
* minicrisis
* multicrisis
* never waste a crisis
* noncrisis
* oxygenation crisis
* oxygen crisis
* permacrisis
* personal crisis
* polycrisis
* postcrisis
* precrisis
* psychedelic crisis
* psychological crisis
* quarter-life crisis
* renal crisis
* replication crisis
* scissors crisis
* software crisis

#### Related terms

* criterion
* critic
* critical
* criticize
* critique

#### Further reading

* “crisis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “crisis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “crisis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Asturian
### Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)
* crisis

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɾi.zis]
* Rhymes: -izis

### Noun

crisis
* plural of crisi

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkri.zɪs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cri‧sis

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* kritiek
* kritisch

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: krisis

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crisis.

### Noun

crisis oblique singular, f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)
* crisis, emergency; urgent situation

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)
* crisis
* attack; fit

#### Derived terms

* anticrisis
* crisis de comportamiento
* crisis de identidad
* crisis de los 30
* crisis de migraña
* crisis de replicación
* gabinete de crisis

#### Related terms

* crítico

### Further reading

* “crisis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10