συντονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύντονος (súntonos, “intense”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

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

συντονίᾱ • (suntoníā) f (genitive συντονίᾱς); first declension

1. intense application or exertion

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 - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “συντονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press