synopsis

See also: Synopsis

English

WOTD – 14 August 2007

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  synopsis, itself from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒpsɪs/
• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑpsɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (AU):

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Noun

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. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• synoptic
• synoptical
• synoptically
• synoptist

Translations

brief summary

• Afrikaans: sinopsis
• Albanian: konspekt (sq)
• Bulgarian: обзор (bg) m (obzor)
• Catalan: sinopsi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 概要 (zh) (gàiyào), 提要 (zh) (tíyào), 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào)

• Czech: přehled m, synopse (cs) f
• Danish: synopse (da) c, synopsis (da) c
• Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, synopsis (nl) f
• Estonian: kokkuvõte
• Finnish: tiivistelmä (fi), yhteenveto (fi), synopsis (fi)
• French: abrégé (fr) m, précis (fr) m, résumé (fr) m
• Galician: resumo m, sinopse f
• Georgian: მიმოხილვა (mimoxilva)
• German: Synopse (de) f, Übersicht (de) f, Zusammenfassung (de) f
• Greek: σύνοψη (el) f (sýnopsi), περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi)
• Hungarian: összefoglalás (hu), összegzés (hu), áttekintés (hu), összefoglaló (hu)
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• Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú m
• Italian: sinossi (it) f
• Japanese: 大意 (ja) (たいい, taii), 梗概 (こうがい, kōgai), 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō), あらすじ (ja) (arasuji)
• Korean: 대위 (ko) (daewi), 경개 (ko) (gyeonggae), 개요 (gaeyo)
• Maori: whakarāpopoto
• Polish: streszczenie (pl) m
• Portuguese: resumo (pt) m
• Russian: кра́ткое описа́ние n (krátkoje opisánije), кра́ткий обзо́р m (krátkij obzór), сино́псис (ru) m (sinópsis), конспе́кт (ru) m (konspékt), обозре́ние (ru) n (obozrénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синопсис m, сажетак m

  Roman: sinopsis (sh) m, sažetak (sh) m

• Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m, sinopsis (es) f
• Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c, synopsis (sv) c, sammandrag (sv) n
• Turkish: özet (tr)
• Welsh: crynodeb (cy)

See also

• bird's-eye view

Further reading

• “synopsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “synopsis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.nɔp.sis/

• Audio:

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Noun

synopsis m or f (plural synopsis)

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

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /syˈnop.sis/, [s̠ʏˈnɔps̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈnop.sis/, [siˈnɔpsis]

Noun

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

1. list
2. synopsis

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	synopsis	synopsēs synopseis
Genitive	synopsis synopseōs synopsios	synopsium
Dative	synopsī	synopsibus
Accusative	synopsim synopsin synopsem1	synopsēs synopsīs
Ablative	synopsī synopse1	synopsibus
Vocative	synopsis synopsi	synopsēs synopseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• English: synopsis
• French: synopsis
• Italian: sinossi
• Spanish: sinopsis

References

• “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.