synod

English

WOTD – 25 December 2011

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύνοδος (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, path”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭn'əd, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.əd/

Noun

synod (plural synods)

1. An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
2. An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
3. An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     It hath in solemn synods been decreed.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above.

   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     A third part of the Gods, in synod met

     Their deities to assert; who, while they feel

     Vigour divine within them, can allow

     Omnipotence to none.

4. (astronomy) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

Usage notes

Usage differs between different churches – see uses in different Communions.

Hypernyms

• council

Derived terms

• general synod
• synodal
• synodic

Translations

ecclesiastic council or meeting

• Afrikaans: sinode (af)
• Arabic: سِيَنُودُوس m (siyanūdūs)
• Armenian: սինոդ (hy) (sinod)
• Belarusian: сіно́д m (sinód)
• Catalan: sínode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教会会议 (jiàohuì huìyì)

• Czech: synod m, synoda f
• Danish: synode c
• Dutch: synode (nl) f
• Esperanto: sinodo
• Estonian: sinod
• Finnish: kirkolliskokous (fi), synodi (fi)
• French: synode (fr) m
• Galician: sínodo m
• Georgian: სინოდი (sinodi)
• German: Synode (de) f
• Greek: σύνοδος (el) f (sýnodos)

  Ancient: σύνοδος f (súnodos)

• Hebrew: סִינוֹד m
• Hungarian: zsinat (hu), szinódus (hu)
• Icelandic: prestastefna f
• Ido: sinodo (io)
• Indonesian: sinode (id)
• Italian: sinodo (it) m
• Japanese: 教会会議 (きょうかいかいぎ, kyōkaikaigi)
• Kazakh: синод (sinod)
• Korean: 교회회의 (gyohoehoe'ui), 시노드 (sinodeu)
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• Latin: synodus m
• Lithuanian: sinodas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Synood

• Macedonian: синод m (sinod)
• Malayalam: സൂനഹദോസുകൾ (sūnahadōsukaḷ)
• Maori: hīnota
• Norman: synnode m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: synode m

  Nynorsk: synode m

• Portuguese: sínodo m
• Romanian: sinod (ro) n
• Russian: сино́д (ru) m (sinód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝно̄д m

  Roman: sìnōd (sh) m

• Slovak: synoda f
• Spanish: sínodo m
• Swahili: sinodi
• Swedish: synod (sv) c
• Tagalog: sinodo
• Ukrainian: сино́д m (synód)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: синод (uz) (sinod)

  Roman: sinod (uz)

• Vietnamese: công nghị
• West Frisian: synoade

administrative division of church

• Catalan: sínode m
• Finnish: synodi (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: sínodo m

Anagrams

• Dyson, dynos, dyons

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Czech

Noun

1. synod (an ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters)

Synonyms

• synoda