σύνοδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύν (sun, “with”) + ὁδός (hodos, “way, path”)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /sýnodos/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /sýnodos/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /sýnoðos/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /sýnoðos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /sínoðos/

Noun

σύνοδος (genitive συνόδου) f, second declension; (sunodos)

1. assembly, meeting
2. (in the plural) political associations, conspiracies
3. (in the plural) synods
4. company, guild
5. the meeting of two armies
6. sexual intercourse
7. constriction
8. union, assemblage, combination
9. (grammar) construction
10. incoming revenue

Inflection

Second declension of σύνοδος, συνόδου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	σύνοδος	συνόδω	σύνοδοι
Genitive	συνόδου	συνόδοιν	συνόδων
Dative	συνόδῳ	συνόδοιν	συνόδοις
Accusative	σύνοδον	συνόδω	συνόδους
Vocative	σύνοδε	συνόδω	σύνοδοι

Synonyms

• (sexual intercourse): συνουσία

Descendants

• English: synod
• Greek: σύνοδος
• Russian: сино́д (sinód) m

References

• LSJ

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Greek

Noun

σύνοδος (sýnodos) f,   plural σύνοδοι

1. synod (ecclesiastic council)
2. meeting
3. session
4. (astronomy) conjunction

Declension

This Greek noun needs an inflection-table template.