σύνθημα

Ancient Greek

From συντίθημι (suntíthēmi) +‎ -μα (-ma)

σύνθημᾰ • (súnthēmă) n (genitive συνθήμᾰτος); third declension

Third declension of τὸ σῠ́νθημᾰ; τοῦ σῠνθήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῠ́νθημᾰ tò sŭ́nthēmă	τὼ σῠνθήμᾰτε tṑ sŭnthḗmăte	τᾰ̀ σῠνθήμᾰτᾰ tằ sŭnthḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ σῠνθήμᾰτος toû sŭnthḗmătos	τοῖν σῠνθημᾰ́τοιν toîn sŭnthēmắtoin	τῶν σῠνθημᾰ́των tôn sŭnthēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ σῠνθήμᾰτῐ tōî sŭnthḗmătĭ	τοῖν σῠνθημᾰ́τοιν toîn sŭnthēmắtoin	τοῖς σῠνθήμᾰσῐ / σῠνθήμᾰσῐν toîs sŭnthḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ σῠ́νθημᾰ tò sŭ́nthēmă	τὼ σῠνθήμᾰτε tṑ sŭnthḗmăte	τᾰ̀ σῠνθήμᾰτᾰ tằ sŭnthḗmătă
Vocative	σῠ́νθημᾰ sŭ́nthēmă	σῠνθήμᾰτε sŭnthḗmăte	σῠνθήμᾰτᾰ sŭnthḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύνθημα (súnthēma) with semantic loan from French signal and Italian segnale in the sense 'signal', from French mot d'ordre in the sense 'watchword, motto' and from English slogan.^[1]

σύνθημα • (sýnthima) n (plural συνθήματα)

(security, military) watchword, password, codeword, code
signal, cue, prompt (a sign or utterance made to indicate the start of a concerted action)
watchword, motto (a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle)
slogan (political or commercial)

^ σύνθημα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language