σύνοδος

See also: συνοδός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σῠν- (sun-, “with”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sý.no.dos/ → /ˈsy.no.ðos/ → /ˈsi.no.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sý.no.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.no.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.no.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.no.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.no.ðos/

Noun

σῠ́νοδος • (súnodos) f (genitive σῠνόδου); second declension

1. assembly, meeting
2. (in the plural) political associations, conspiracies
3. (in the plural) synods
4. company, guild
5. the meeting of two armies
6. sexual intercourse
7. constriction
8. union, assemblage, combination
9. (grammar) construction
10. (astronomy) conjunction
11. incoming revenue

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ σῠ́νοδος; τῆς σῠνόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠ́νοδος hē súnodos	τὼ σῠνόδω tṑ sunódō	αἱ σῠ́νοδοι hai súnodoi
Genitive	τῆς σῠνόδου tês sunódou	τοῖν σῠνόδοιν toîn sunódoin	τῶν σῠνόδων tôn sunódōn
Dative	τῇ σῠνόδῳ têi sunódōi	τοῖν σῠνόδοιν toîn sunódoin	ταῖς σῠνόδοις taîs sunódois
Accusative	τὴν σῠ́νοδον tḕn súnodon	τὼ σῠνόδω tṑ sunódō	τᾱ̀ς σῠνόδους tā̀s sunódous
Vocative	σῠ́νοδε súnode	σῠνόδω sunódō	σῠ́νοδοι súnodoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (sexual intercourse): συνουσία (sunousía)

Descendants

• → English: synod
• → French: synode
• Greek: σύνοδος (sýnodos)
• → Latin: synodus
• Russian: сино́д m (sinód)

Further reading

• “σύνοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σύνοδος 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.
  • affray idem, page 17.
  • assembly idem, page 45.
  • association idem, page 47.
  • battle idem, page 65.
  • bevy idem, page 77.
  • body idem, page 87.
  • clash idem, page 135.
  • club idem, page 140.
  • coalition idem, page 140.
  • collection idem, page 143.
  • collision idem, page 143.
  • combination idem, page 144.
  • concourse idem, page 156.
  • concussion idem, page 156.
  • conference idem, page 158.
  • conflict idem, page 159.
  • congress idem, page 160.
  • consultation idem, page 165.
  • convention idem, page 173.
  • council idem, page 176.
  • crowd idem, page 186.
  • encounter idem, page 271.
  • engagement idem, page 274.
  • fight idem, page 318.
  • gathering idem, page 354.
  • host idem, page 407.
  • interview idem, page 453.
  • junction idem, page 466.
  • levy idem, page 487.
  • meeting idem, page 522.
  • melée idem, page 524.
  • multitude idem, page 546.
  • muster idem, page 548.
  • organisation idem, page 579.
  • party idem, page 595.
  • shock idem, page 767.
  • society idem, page 791.
  • throng idem, page 870.
  • union idem, page 922.

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Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos).

Noun

σύνοδος • (sýnodos) f (plural σύνοδοι)

1. meeting
2. session
3. (religion) synod, ecclesiastic council
4. (astronomy) conjunction

Declension

Declension of σύνοδος

	singular	plural
nominative	σύνοδος •	σύνοδοι •
genitive	συνόδου •	συνόδων •
accusative	σύνοδο •	συνόδους •
vocative	σύνοδε •,  σύνοδο •	σύνοδοι •

See also

• συμβούλιο n (symvoúlio, “committee, council”)