συγκρητισμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συγκρητίζω (sunkrētízō) + -μός (-mós), or possibly from συν- (sun-) + Κρῆτες (Krêtes, “Cretans”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”) if the verb is a back-formation. First appears in Plutarch's Moralia.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /syŋ.krɛː.tiz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /syŋ.kre̝.tizˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /syŋ.ɡri.tizˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syŋ.ɡri.tizˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siŋ.ɡri.tizˈmos/
Noun
συγκρητισμός • (sunkrētismós) m (genitive συγκρητισμοῦ); second declension
- the federation of Cretan cities
- setting aside one's differences to form an alliance
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, On Brotherly Love 2.490b:
- ...μιμούμενον αὐτὸ γοῦν τοῦτο τὸ Κρητῶν, οἳ πολλάκις στασιάζοντες ἀλλήλοις καὶ πολεμοῦντες, ἔξωθεν ἐπιόντων πολεμίων διελύοντο καὶ συνίσταντο· καὶ τοῦτ' ἦν ὁ καλούμενος ὑπ' αὐτῶν "συνκρητισμός".
- ...mimoúmenon autò goûn toûto tò Krētôn, hoì pollákis stasiázontes allḗlois kaì polemoûntes, éxōthen epióntōn polemíōn dielúonto kaì sunístanto; kaì toût' ên ho kaloúmenos hup' autôn "sunkrētismós".
- ...imitating in this point, at least, the practice of Cretans, who, though they often quarreled with and warred against each other, made up their differences and united when outside enemies attacked; and this it was which they called "syncretism."
- ...μιμούμενον αὐτὸ γοῦν τοῦτο τὸ Κρητῶν, οἳ πολλάκις στασιάζοντες ἀλλήλοις καὶ πολεμοῦντες, ἔξωθεν ἐπιόντων πολεμίων διελύοντο καὶ συνίσταντο· καὶ τοῦτ' ἦν ὁ καλούμενος ὑπ' αὐτῶν "συνκρητισμός".
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὁ συγκρητισμός ho sunkrētismós |
τὼ συγκρητισμώ tṑ sunkrētismṓ |
οἱ συγκρητισμοί hoi sunkrētismoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ συγκρητισμοῦ toû sunkrētismoû |
τοῖν συγκρητισμοῖν toîn sunkrētismoîn |
τῶν συγκρητισμῶν tôn sunkrētismôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ συγκρητισμῷ tôi sunkrētismôi |
τοῖν συγκρητισμοῖν toîn sunkrētismoîn |
τοῖς συγκρητισμοῖς toîs sunkrētismoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν συγκρητισμόν tòn sunkrētismón |
τὼ συγκρητισμώ tṑ sunkrētismṓ |
τοὺς συγκρητισμούς toùs sunkrētismoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | συγκρητισμέ sunkrētismé |
συγκρητισμώ sunkrētismṓ |
συγκρητισμοί sunkrētismoí | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Descendants
- → English: syncretism
- → French: syncrétisme
Further reading
- “συγκρητισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μός
- Ancient Greek terms prefixed with συν-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ισμός
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek terms with quotations