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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῠν- (sun-, “together”) + χῠ́σῐς (khúsis, “pouring”), or from σῠγχέω (sunkhéō, “to pour together, confound, trouble”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sýŋ.kʰy.sis/ → /ˈsyɲ.çy.sis/ → /ˈsiɲ.çi.sis/
Noun
σῠ́γχῠσῐς • (súnkhusis) f (genitive σῠγχῠ́σεως); third declension
- a mixing
- confounding
- disturbing
- overthrow, revolt
Declension
References
- “σύγχυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύγχυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4799 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.
- breach idem, page 94.
- contravention idem, page 169.
- disruption idem, page 239.
- embarrassment idem, page 267.
- infraction idem, page 439.
- infringement idem, page 439.
- rupture idem, page 727.
- tangle idem, page 855.
- transgression idem, page 888.
- violation idem, page 953.