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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠνῑ́ημῐ (sunī́ēmi, “bring together”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sý.ne.sis/ → /ˈsy.ne.sis/ → /ˈsi.ne.sis/
Noun
σῠ́νεσῐς • (súnesis) f (genitive σῠνέσεως); third declension
- a conflux, uniting, coming together
- understanding, intelligence
- conscience
- a branch of art or science
- a decision or decree
- (Gnosticism) one of the aeons or emanations of the Godhead, representing intelligence
Inflection
References
- “σύνεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύνεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σύνεσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4907 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.
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