συμβολισμός

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French symbolisme. By surface analysis, σύμβολ(ο) (sýmvol(o)) +‎ -ισμός (-ismós).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siɱ.vo.liˈzmos/
  • Hyphenation: συμ‧βο‧λι‧σμός

Noun

συμβολισμός • (symvolismós) m (plural συμβολισμοί)

  1. symbolism (representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities)
  2. notation (the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters)
  3. notation (a system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities)
  4. (art) symbolism (an art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism)

Declension

Declension of συμβολισμός
singular plural
nominative συμβολισμός (symvolismós) συμβολισμοί (symvolismoí)
genitive συμβολισμού (symvolismoú) συμβολισμών (symvolismón)
accusative συμβολισμό (symvolismó) συμβολισμούς (symvolismoús)
vocative συμβολισμέ (symvolismé) συμβολισμοί (symvolismoí)

References

  1. ^ συμβολισμός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

Further reading

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