συζυγία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύζυγος (súzugos, “yoked together, paired”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syz.dy.ɡí.aː/ → /sy.zyˈʝi.a/ → /si.ziˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syz.dy.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sy.zyˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sy.zyˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sy.zyˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.ziˈʝi.a/

Noun

σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ • (suzugíā) f (genitive σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. union, junction
2. yoke of animals
3. (generally) pair
4. squadron of four war-chariots
5. coupling, copulation
6. conjunction of words or things in pairs
7. (grammar) conjugation or declension
8. (astronomy) syzygy, alignment of celestial bodies

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ hē suzugíā	τὼ σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ suzugíā	αἱ σῠζῠγῐ́αι hai suzugíai
Genitive	τῆς σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱς tês suzugíās	τοῖν σῠζῠγῐ́αιν toîn suzugíain	τῶν σῠζῠγῐῶν tôn suzugiôn
Dative	τῇ σῠζῠγῐ́ᾳ têi suzugíāi	τοῖν σῠζῠγῐ́αιν toîn suzugíain	ταῖς σῠζῠγῐ́αις taîs suzugíais
Accusative	τὴν σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱν tḕn suzugíān	τὼ σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ tṑ suzugíā	τᾱ̀ς σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱς tā̀s suzugíās
Vocative	σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ suzugíā	σῠζῠγῐ́ᾱ suzugíā	σῠζῠγῐ́αι suzugíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: syzygia
  • → English: syzygy

Further reading

• “συζυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “συζυγία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• συζυγία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette