συνθήκη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From σῠντῐ́θημῐ (sŭntĭ́thēmĭ, “to place or put together”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /syn.tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /synˈtʰe̝.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /synˈθi.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /synˈθi.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sinˈθi.ci/
Noun
σῠνθήκη • (sŭnthḗkē) f (genitive σῠνθήκης); first declension
- a compounding, especially of words and sentences
- convention, compact
- coffin
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠνθήκη hē sŭnthḗkē |
τὼ σῠνθήκᾱ tṑ sŭnthḗkā |
αἱ σῠνθῆκαι hai sŭnthêkai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠνθήκης tês sŭnthḗkēs |
τοῖν σῠνθήκαιν toîn sŭnthḗkain |
τῶν σῠνθηκῶν tôn sŭnthēkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠνθήκῃ tēî sŭnthḗkēi |
τοῖν σῠνθήκαιν toîn sŭnthḗkain |
ταῖς σῠνθήκαις taîs sŭnthḗkais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠνθήκην tḕn sŭnthḗkēn |
τὼ σῠνθήκᾱ tṑ sŭnthḗkā |
τᾱ̀ς σῠνθήκᾱς tā̀s sŭnthḗkās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠνθήκη sŭnthḗkē |
σῠνθήκᾱ sŭnthḗkā |
σῠνθῆκαι sŭnthêkai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπῐσῠνθήκη (epĭsŭnthḗkē)
Descendants
- → Aramaic: צנדוק (ṣəndūq)
- → Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
- Egyptian Arabic: صندوق (sandūʔ, sundūʔ)
- Gulf Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūg)
- Juba Arabic: sonduk
- Maltese: senduq
- Moroccan Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
- → Amharic: ሳንዱቅ (sanduḳ)
- → Oromo: saanduqa
- → Tigrinya: ሳንዱቕ (sandux̣)
- → Aramaic:
- → Classical Persian: صَنْدُوق (sandūq)
- → Assamese: চন্দুক (sonduk)
- → Bengali: সিন্দুক (śinduk)
- → Azerbaijani: sandıq
- → Bashkir: һандыҡ (handıq)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kannada: ಸಂದೂಕ (sandūka)
- → Kazakh: сандық (sandyq)
- → Odia: ସିନ୍ଦୁକ (sinduka)
- → Ottoman Turkish: صندوق (sanduk)
- → Pashto: صندوق (sandúq)
- → Punjabi: ਸੰਦੂਕ਼ (sandūq), صندوق (ṣndoq)
- → Turkmen: sandyk
- → Chagatai:
- Uyghur: ساندۇق (sanduq)
- Uzbek: sandiq
- → Georgian: ზანდუკი (zanduḳi)
- → Kabyle: asenduq
- → Old Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk)
- → Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk), սնտուկ (sntuk)
- → Hausa: sàndūƙī̀
- → Mabaan: canduuk
- → Sango: sandûku
- → Somali: sanduuq
- → Swahili: sanduku
- → Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
Further reading
- “συνθήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συνθήκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- compact idem, page 149.
- convention idem, page 173.
- pact idem, page 588.
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek συνθήκη (sunthḗkē).
Noun
συνθήκη • (synthíki) f (plural συνθήκες)
- (law) treaty, agreement, mutual acceptance
- Η Συνθήκη για τη Μη Διάδοση των Πυρηνικών Όπλων
- I Synthíki gia ti Mi Diádosi ton Pyrinikón Óplon
- The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- (in the plural): conditions, circumstances (a set of something make up a situation)
- Ζούσε κάτω από πολύ δύσκολες συνθήκες.
- Zoúse káto apó polý dýskoles synthíkes.
- She used to live under very difficult conditions.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | συνθήκη (synthíki) | συνθήκες (synthíkes) |
| genitive | συνθήκης (synthíkis) | συνθηκών (synthikón) |
| accusative | συνθήκη (synthíki) | συνθήκες (synthíkes) |
| vocative | συνθήκη (synthíki) | συνθήκες (synthíkes) |
Related terms
- κατά συνθήκην ψεύδη (katá synthíkin psévdi, “conventional lies”)
- συνομιλία f (“dialogue, exchange of views”)
See also
- συμφωνία f (symfonía, “agreement, symphony”)