συνείδησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σύνοιδα (súnoida), + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /syˈni.de̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈni.ði.sis/
Noun
σῠνείδησῐς • (suneídēsis) f (genitive σῠνειδήσεως); third declension
- consciousness, perception of one's own thoughts
- 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 4:2
- New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:19
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 4.65
- New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:2
- 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Belopoeica 73
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 10.20
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
- consciousness of right or wrong, conscience
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 3.24.11–12
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Amores (Affairs of the Heart) 49
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 654
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 8
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 23:1
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 24:!6
- New Testament, First Epistle to Timothy 3:9
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:27
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ σῠνείδησῐς; τῆς σῠνειδήσεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σῠνείδησῐς hē suneídēsis | τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei | αἱ σῠνειδήσεις hai suneidḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σῠνειδήσεως tês suneidḗseōs | τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin | τῶν σῠνειδήσεων tôn suneidḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σῠνειδήσει têi suneidḗsei | τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin | ταῖς σῠνειδήσεσῐ / σῠνειδήσεσῐν taîs suneidḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σῠνείδησῐν tḕn suneídēsin | τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei | τᾱ̀ς σῠνειδήσεις tā̀s suneidḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῠνείδησῐ suneídēsi | σῠνειδήσει suneidḗsei | σῠνειδήσεις suneidḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: συνείδηση (syneídisi)
- → Latin: conscientia (calque) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Georgian: სჳნდისი (swindisi) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “συνείδησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συνείδησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4893 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible