σύνοψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σしぐまῠνにゅー- (sun-, “with”) +‎ ὄψぷさいῐς (ópsis, “aspect, appearance”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sý.nop.sis/ → /ˈsy.nop.sis/ → /ˈsi.nop.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sý.nop.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.nop.sis/

Noun

σしぐまῠ́νにゅーοおみくろんψぷさいῐς • (súnopsis) f (genitive σしぐまῠνόψῐος or σしぐまῠνόψεως); third declension

1. (both literal and figurative) a seeing all together, general view, shared view
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 858c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 537c
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.4.1
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.77
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.27.1
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 38.18.6
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 24.1
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 6
2. epitome, synopsis, abridgment
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1057c
   1. recapitulation
      • Herm., in Phdr. p.158A
3. estimate
   • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 669.55
   • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 669.58
   • Sammelb. 5230.50
   • PRyl. 221.24
   • Oxyrhynchus Papyri 896.6
   • Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1450.12
4. expense
   • Sammelb. 7475.14

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σしぐまῠ́νにゅーοおみくろんψぷさいῐς; τたうῆς σしぐまῠνόψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σしぐまῠ́νにゅーοおみくろんψぷさいῐς hē súnopsis	τたうὼ σしぐまῠνόψει tṑ sunópsei	αあるふぁἱ σしぐまῠνόψεις hai sunópseis
Genitive	τたうῆς σしぐまῠνόψεως tês sunópseōs	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー σしぐまῠνοψέοιν toîn sunopséoin	τたうῶνにゅー σしぐまῠνόψεων tôn sunópseōn
Dative	τたうῇ σしぐまῠνόψει têi sunópsei	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー σしぐまῠνοψέοιν toîn sunopséoin	τたうαあるふぁῖς σしぐまῠνόψεσῐ / σしぐまῠνόψεσῐνにゅー taîs sunópsesi(n)
Accusative	τたうὴνにゅー σしぐまῠ́νにゅーοおみくろんψぷさいῐνにゅー tḕn súnopsin	τたうὼ σしぐまῠνόψει tṑ sunópsei	τたうᾱ̀ς σしぐまῠνόψεις tā̀s sunópseis
Vocative	σしぐまῠ́νにゅーοおみくろんψぷさいῐ súnopsi	σしぐまῠνόψει sunópsei	σしぐまῠνόψεις sunópseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σしぐまῠνοψίζω (sunopsízō)
• σしぐまῠνοψοφᾰγέω (sunopsophagéō)

Descendants

• → Greek: σύνοψη (sýnopsi) (learned)
• Latin: synopsis
  • English: synopsis
  • French: synopsis
• Russian: сино́псис (sinópsis)

References

• “σύνοψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σύνοψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bird's-eye view idem, page 79.
  • synopsis idem, page 851.