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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συγκρητίζω (sunkrētízō) + -μός (-mós), or possibly from συν- (sun-) + Κρῆτες (Krêtes, “Cretans”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”) if the verb is a back-formation. First appears in Plutarch's Moralia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syŋ.krɛː.tiz.mós/ → /syŋ.ɡri.tizˈmos/ → /siŋ.ɡri.tizˈmos/
Noun
συγκρητισμός • (sunkrētismós) m (genitive συγκρητισμοῦ); second declension
- the federation of Cretan cities
- setting aside one's differences to form an alliance
46 CE – 120 CE,
Plutarch,
On Brotherly Love 2.490b:
- ...μιμούμενον αὐτὸ γοῦν τοῦτο τὸ Κρητῶν, οἳ πολλάκις στασιάζοντες ἀλλήλοις καὶ πολεμοῦντες, ἔξωθεν ἐπιόντων πολεμίων διελύοντο καὶ συνίσταντο· καὶ τοῦτ’ ἦν ὁ καλούμενος ὑπ’ αὐτῶν συνκρητισμός.
- ...mimoúmenon autò goûn toûto tò Krētôn, hoì pollákis stasiázontes allḗlois kaì polemoûntes, éxōthen epióntōn polemíōn dielúonto kaì sunístanto; kaì toût’ ên ho kaloúmenos hup’ autôn sunkrētismós.
- ...imitating in this point, at least, the practice of Cretans, who, though they often quarreled with and warred against each other, made up their differences and united when outside enemies attacked; and this it was which they called syncretism.
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