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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠμπότης (sumpótēs, “fellow drinker”) + -ῐον (-ion), from σῠμπῑ́νω (sumpī́nō, “I drink together”) + -της (-tēs), from σῠν- (sun-, “with, together”) + πῑ́νω (pī́nō, “I drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sym.pó.si.on/ → /symˈpo.si.on/ → /simˈbo.si.on/
Noun
σῠμπόσῐον • (sumpósion) n (genitive σῠμποσῐ́ου); second declension
- drinking party, entertainment, feast, banquet, convivium, symposium
- party, group
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Further reading
- “συμπόσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συμπόσιον 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
- G4849 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.