synopsis

From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒpsɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑpsɪs/

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synopsis (plural synopses)

1. (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
2. A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
3. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

• (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary

• synoptic
• synoptical
• synoptically
• synoptist

• bird's-eye view

• “synopsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “synopsis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin synopsis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsynopsis/, [ˈs̠yno̞ps̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -ynopsis
• Syllabification^(key): sy‧nop‧sis
• Hyphenation^(key): sy‧nop‧sis

synopsis

1. synopsis

• tiivistelmä

• “synopsis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /si.nɔp.sis/

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synopsis m or f (plural synopsis)

1. a general overview or synoptic table of a topic
2. (media) Plot summary of a movie

• “synopsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek σῠ́νοψῐς (sŭ́nopsĭs, “shared view; estimate”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syˈnɔp.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈnɔp.sis]

synopsis f (genitive synopsis or synopseōs or synopsios); third declension

1. list
2. synopsis, overview

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• Catalan: sinopsi
• English: synopsis
• French: synopsis
• Italian: sinossi
• Spanish: sinopsis
• Portuguese: sinopse

• “synopsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synopsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

synopsis c (indeclinable)

1. synonym of synops (“synopsis”)

• synopsis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• synopsis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• synopsis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)