σύνοψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
σῠν- (sun-, “with”) + ὄψῐς (ópsis, “aspect, appearance”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sý.nop.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.nop.sis/
Noun
σῠ́νοψῐς • (súnopsis) f (genitive σῠνόψῐος or σῠνόψεως); third declension
- (both literally and figuratively) a seeing all together, general view, shared view
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 858c
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 537c
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.4.1
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.77
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.27.1
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 38.18.6
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 24.1
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 6
- epitome, synopsis, abridgment
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1057c
- recapitulation
- Herm., in Phdr. p.158A
- estimate
- OGI 669.55
- OGI 669.58
- Sammelb. 5230.50
- PRyl. 221.24
- POxy. 896.6
- POxy. 1450.12
- expense
- Sammelb. 7475.14
Declension
Third declension of ἡ σῠ́νοψῐς; τῆς σῠνόψεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σῠ́νοψῐς hē súnopsis | τὼ σῠνόψει tṑ sunópsei | αἱ σῠνόψεις hai sunópseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σῠνόψεως tês sunópseōs | τοῖν σῠνοψέοιν toîn sunopséoin | τῶν σῠνόψεων tôn sunópseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σῠνόψει têi sunópsei | τοῖν σῠνοψέοιν toîn sunopséoin | ταῖς σῠνόψεσῐ / σῠνόψεσῐν taîs sunópsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σῠ́νοψῐν tḕn súnopsin | τὼ σῠνόψει tṑ sunópsei | τᾱ̀ς σῠνόψεις tā̀s sunópseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῠ́νοψῐ súnopsi | σῠνόψει sunópsei | σῠνόψεις sunópseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σῠνοψίζω (sunopsízō)
- σῠνοψοφᾰγέω (sunopsophagéō)
Descendants
- → Greek: σύνοψη (sýnopsi) (learned)
- Latin: synopsis
- English: synopsis
- French: synopsis
- Russian: сино́псис (sinópsis)
References
- “σύνοψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύνοψις 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.
- bird's-eye view idem, page 79.
- synopsis idem, page 851.