crisis

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκρίσις“a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”
2. Latin · borrowed fromcrisis
3. English todaycrisis

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”).