σύνθεσις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠντῐ́θημῐ (sŭntĭ́thēmĭ) + -σῐς (-sĭs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýn.tʰe.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyn.tʰe.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyn.θe.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyn.θe.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsin.θe.sis/
Noun
σῠ́νθεσῐς • (sŭ́nthesĭs) f (genitive σῠνθέσεως); third declension
- a putting together, composition, combination, juxtaposition, synthesis
- (mathematics) addition
- agreement, treaty
- collection
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠ́νθεσῐς hē sŭ́nthesĭs |
τὼ σῠνθέσει tṑ sŭnthései |
αἱ σῠνθέσεις hai sŭnthéseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠνθέσεως tês sŭnthéseōs |
τοῖν σῠνθεσέοιν toîn sŭntheséoin |
τῶν σῠνθέσεων tôn sŭnthéseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠνθέσει tēî sŭnthései |
τοῖν σῠνθεσέοιν toîn sŭntheséoin |
ταῖς σῠνθέσεσῐ / σῠνθέσεσῐν taîs sŭnthésesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠ́νθεσῐν tḕn sŭ́nthesĭn |
τὼ σῠνθέσει tṑ sŭnthései |
τᾱ̀ς σῠνθέσεις tā̀s sŭnthéseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠ́νθεσῐ sŭ́nthesĭ |
σῠνθέσει sŭnthései |
σῠνθέσεις sŭnthéseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- ἀνάλυσις (análusis)
Descendants
Further reading
- “σύνθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύνθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- combination idem, page 144.
- compilation idem, page 151.
- composition idem, page 153.
- construction idem, page 165.