συγγενής

• ξυγγενής (xungenḗs) — Old Attic
• σῠγγενεύς (sŭngeneús)

From σῠν- (sŭn-, “with”) +‎ the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be born”) +‎ -ής (-ḗs, adjectival suffix).

σῠγγενής • (sŭngenḗs) m or f (neuter σῠγγενές); third declension

1. born with, congenital, innate, natural, inborn
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.16
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.69
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Prorrhetics 83
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 691
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 832
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.41
2. of the same family, akin to, related
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.109
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.2
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.236
   1. (substantive) kinsman, relative
      • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 618
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 368
   2. (neuter substantive) relationship
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 289
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1469
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
   3. (figuratively) akin, of like kind
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1280, (Compare Thesmophoriazusae 574)
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 789
3. (at the Persian court) a title bestowed by the king as a mark of honour
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.27
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.31

• “συγγενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συγγενής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4773 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • akin idem, page 21.
  • allied idem, page 25.
  • cognate idem, page 142.
  • congenital idem, page 160.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • german, germane idem, page 357.
  • hereditary idem, page 397.
  • in-born idem, page 426.
  • in-bred idem, page 427.
  • ingrained idem, page 440.
  • innate idem, page 442.
  • instinctive idem, page 446.
  • kindred idem, page 469.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • natural idem, page 551.
  • relation idem, page 689.

From the Ancient Greek συγγενής (sungenḗs, “congenital”, “inborn”).

• IPA^(key): /siŋɟeˈnis/

συγγενής • (syngenís) m (feminine συγγενής, neuter συγγενές)

1. related
2. congenital

• συγγενικός (syngenikós)

συγγενής • (syngenís) m or f (plural συγγενείς)

1. relative, relation

   μακρινός συγγενής   (distant relative)

   στενός συγγενής   (close relative)

• συγγενεύω (syngenévo, “to be related to”, verb)