σύνεδρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formed as σῠν- (sun-, “with”) + ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “seat; session”); the noun form is a substantive of the adjective form.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sý.ne.dros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsy.ne.dros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.ne.ðros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.ne.ðros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ne.ðros/
Adjective
σῠ́νεδρος • (súnedros) m or f (neuter σῠ́νεδρον); second declension
- (of persons) sitting in council with
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.34
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 192
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 749
- (of birds) sitting together, friendly
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 608b.29
Declension
Second declension of σῠ́νεδρος; σῠ́νεδρον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | σῠ́νεδρος súnedros | σῠ́νεδρον súnedron | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠ́νεδροι súnedroi | σῠ́νεδρᾰ súnedra | ||||||||
Genitive | σῠνέδρου sunédrou | σῠνέδρου sunédrou | σῠνέδροιν sunédroin | σῠνέδροιν sunédroin | σῠνέδρων sunédrōn | σῠνέδρων sunédrōn | ||||||||
Dative | σῠνέδρῳ sunédrōi | σῠνέδρῳ sunédrōi | σῠνέδροιν sunédroin | σῠνέδροιν sunédroin | σῠνέδροις sunédrois | σῠνέδροις sunédrois | ||||||||
Accusative | σῠ́νεδρον súnedron | σῠ́νεδρον súnedron | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠνέδρους sunédrous | σῠ́νεδρᾰ súnedra | ||||||||
Vocative | σῠ́νεδρε súnedre | σῠ́νεδρον súnedron | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠ́νεδροι súnedroi | σῠ́νεδρᾰ súnedra | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
σῠνέδρως sunédrōs | σῠνεδρότερος sunedróteros | σῠνεδρότᾰτος sunedrótatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- συνεδρία (sunedría)
Noun
σῠ́νεδρος • (súnedros) m or f (genitive σῠνέδρου); second declension
- (in form ξύνεδρος) one who sits with others, assessor, assistant
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1382
- (in the plural, in form ξύνεδρος) select commissioners
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.22
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.86
- (in the plural) delegates to an assembly
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 8.29
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 24.150
- (in the plural) council of elders, senate
Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ σῠ́νεδρος; τοῦ, τῆς σῠνέδρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ σῠ́νεδρος ho, hē súnedros | τὼ σῠνέδρω tṑ sunédrō | οἱ, αἱ σῠ́νεδροι hoi, hai súnedroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς σῠνέδρου toû, tês sunédrou | τοῖν σῠνέδροιν toîn sunédroin | τῶν σῠνέδρων tôn sunédrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ σῠνέδρῳ tôi, têi sunédrōi | τοῖν σῠνέδροιν toîn sunédroin | τοῖς, ταῖς σῠνέδροις toîs, taîs sunédrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν σῠ́νεδρον tòn, tḕn súnedron | τὼ σῠνέδρω tṑ sunédrō | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς σῠνέδρους toùs, tā̀s sunédrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῠ́νεδρε súnedre | σῠνέδρω sunédrō | σῠ́νεδροι súnedroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- συνέδρα (sunédra)
- συνεδρεία (sunedreía)
- συνεδρεύω (sunedreúō)
- συνεδριάζω (sunedriázō)
- συνεδριακός (sunedriakós)
- συνεδριάομαι (sunedriáomai)
- συνέδριον (sunédrion)
- συνεδρῑ́της (sunedrī́tēs)
Descendants
- Latin: synedrus
- English: (obscure) synedrous
References
- “σύνεδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύνεδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- assembled idem, page 45.
- assessor idem, page 46.
- commissioner idem, page 148.
- sitting together idem, page 779.