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English
Etymology
Latin, from Ancient Greek σύναξις (súnaxis, “gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “I gather”). See synagogue.
Pronunciation
Noun
synaxis (plural synaxes)
- A congregation.
1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: James Flesher, for Richard Royston , →OCLC:Thus we find the bishops in the primitive church indicting of fasts , proclaiming assemblies , calling synods , gathering synaxes
- A day following a Great Feast in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, on which a person related to the events is remembered. For example, the Synaxis of John the Baptist follows the Theophany (Baptism of Christ), the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel follows the Annunciation, and the Synaxis of the Theotokos follows Christmas Day.
Proper noun
synaxis
- (obsolete) The Lord's Supper.
Latin
Etymology
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Noun
synaxis f (genitive synaxis); third declension
- assembly
- (holy) communion, Eucharist
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Quotations
- 9na Octobris — Fridolin Studer doliarius. / Breitenbach. ¶ Vitæ temporalis finem fecit Fridolinus Studer fil. Josephi et Ursulæ Jeger maritus M. Annæ Hengi catholico ritu provisus et durante morbo sæpius s. synaxi refectus 24ta Januarii 1782 natus adeoque an̄orum 49 c. 10 mens. ex hydropisi. [1]
References
- ^ Solothurn State Archive, parish book 258 Rohr-Breitenbach 1789–1875, page 323, entry 05 (death on 9 October 1831)