συνέδριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠ́νεδρος (sŭ́nedros, “sitting together”) + -ιον (-ion), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “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 • (sŭnédrĭon) n (genitive σῠνεδρῐ́ου); second declension
- council (advising or governing body)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sŭnédrĭon |
τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sŭnedrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tằ sŭnédrĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῠνεδρῐ́ου toû sŭnedrĭ́ou |
τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sŭnedrĭ́oin |
τῶν σῠνεδρῐ́ων tôn sŭnedrĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῠνεδρῐ́ῳ tōî sŭnedrĭ́ōi |
τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sŭnedrĭ́oin |
τοῖς σῠνεδρῐ́οις toîs sŭnedrĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sŭnédrĭon |
τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sŭnedrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tằ sŭnédrĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠνέδρῐον sŭnédrĭon |
σῠνεδρῐ́ω sŭnedrĭ́ō |
σῠνέδρῐᾰ sŭnédrĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: συνέδριο (synédrio)
- → English: synedrion
- → Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín)
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.