συντονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σῠ́ντονος (súntonos, “intense”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā), the former from συν- (sun-) +‎ τόνος (tónos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syn.to.ní.aː/ → /syn.toˈni.a/ → /sin.doˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syn.to.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syn.toˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syn.toˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syn.toˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sin.doˈni.a/

Noun

σῠντονίᾱ • (suntoníā) f (genitive σῠντονίᾱς); first declension

1. (of the body) tension
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 84e
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 540a.6
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Fatigue 7
   1. (figurative) focus, diligence, concentration
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1341b.41
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1370a.12
2. intensity, intense application or exertion
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 6
   • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Letters 2p.45U
3. force
   • Epicurius, 3.10
4. agreement, harmony
   • Chrysippus, 2.172.19
   • 412 BCE – 323 BCE, Diogenes of Sinope, 7.140

Declension

First declension of ἡ σῠντονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σῠντονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ σῠντονῐ́ᾱ hē suntoníā
Genitive	τῆς σῠντονῐ́ᾱς tês suntoníās
Dative	τῇ σῠντονῐ́ᾳ têi suntoníāi
Accusative	τὴν σῠντονῐ́ᾱν tḕn suntoníān
Vocative	σῠντονῐ́ᾱ suntoníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: sintonia
• → English: syntony
• → French: syntonie
• → Italian: sintonia
• → Portuguese: sintonia
• → Spanish: sintonía

Further reading

• συντονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “συντονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “συντονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press