συνείδησις

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύνοιδα (súnoida), + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈni.de̝.sis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈni.ði.sis/

Noun

σῠνείδησῐς • (suneídēsis) f (genitive σῠνειδήσεως); third declension

consciousness, perception of one's own thoughts
- 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 4:2
- New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:19
- 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 4.65
- New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:2
- 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Belopoeica 73
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 10.20
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
consciousness of right or wrong, conscience
- 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 3.24.11–12
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Amores (Affairs of the Heart) 49
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 654
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 8
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 23:1
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 24:!6
- New Testament, First Epistle to Timothy 3:9
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:27

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῠνείδησῐς; τῆς σῠνειδήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠνείδησῐς hē suneídēsis	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei	αἱ σῠνειδήσεις hai suneidḗseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠνειδήσεως tês suneidḗseōs	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin	τῶν σῠνειδήσεων tôn suneidḗseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠνειδήσει têi suneidḗsei	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin	ταῖς σῠνειδήσεσῐ / σῠνειδήσεσῐν taîs suneidḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠνείδησῐν tḕn suneídēsin	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠνειδήσεις tā̀s suneidḗseis
Vocative	σῠνείδησῐ suneídēsi	σῠνειδήσει suneidḗsei	σῠνειδήσεις suneidḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: συνείδηση (syneídisi)
→ Latin: conscientia (calque) (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Georgian: სჳნდისი (swindisi) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

“συνείδησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
συνείδησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G4893 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
“συνείδησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

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