συνέδριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠ́νεδρος (súnedros, “sitting together”) + -ιον (-ion), from σῠν- (sun-, “with”) + ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “seat”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sy.né.dri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /syˈne.dri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /syˈne.ðri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syˈne.ðri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈne.ðri.on/
Noun
σῠνέδρῐον • (sunédrion) n (genitive σῠνεδρῐ́ου); second declension
- council (advising or governing body)
Declension
Second declension of τὸ σῠνέδρῐον; τοῦ σῠνεδρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sunédrion | τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sunedríō | τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tà sunédria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῠνεδρῐ́ου toû sunedríou | τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sunedríoin | τῶν σῠνεδρῐ́ων tôn sunedríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῠνεδρῐ́ῳ tôi sunedríōi | τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sunedríoin | τοῖς σῠνεδρῐ́οις toîs sunedríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sunédrion | τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sunedríō | τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tà sunédria | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῠνέδρῐον sunédrion | σῠνεδρῐ́ω sunedríō | σῠνέδρῐᾰ sunédria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: συνέδριο (synédrio)
- → English: synedrion
- → Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín)
- → English: Sanhedrin
- → French: sanhédrin
- → Spanish: sanedrín
Further reading
- “συνέδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συνέδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4892 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- board idem, page 86.
- commission idem, page 148.
- committee idem, page 148.
- congress idem, page 160.
- council idem, page 176.
- meeting idem, page 522.
- session idem, page 756.
- sitting idem, page 779.
- synod idem, page 851.