συνεκδοχή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συνεκδέχομαι (sunekdékhomai) + -ή (-ḗ) and συν- (sun-) + ἐκδοχή (ekdokhḗ).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sy.neɡ.do.kʰɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sy.neɡ.doˈkʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /si.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
Noun
σῠνεκδοχή • (sŭnekdokhḗ) f (genitive σῠνεκδοχῆς); first declension
- understanding one thing with another
- (rhetoric) synecdoche
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ σῠνεκδοχή hē sŭnekdokhḗ | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠνεκδοχῆς tês sŭnekdokhês | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠνεκδοχῇ tēî sŭnekdokhēî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠνεκδοχήν tḕn sŭnekdokhḗn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠνεκδοχή sŭnekdokhḗ | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: synecdochē
- → Dutch: synecdoche
- → English: synecdoche
- → Esperanto: sinekdoĥo
- → Finnish: synekdokee
- → French: synecdoque
- → German: Synekdoche
- → Italian: sineddoche
- → Portuguese: sinédoque
- → Romanian: sinecdocă
- → Spanish: sinécdoque
- → Russian: сине́кдоха (sinékdoxa)
- → Kazakh: синекдоха (sinekdoxa)
- → Swedish: synekdoke
Further reading
- συνεκδοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- συνεκδοχή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “συνεκδοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press