συνέδριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σῠ́νεδρος (súnedros, “sitting together”) +‎ -ιον (-ion), from σῠν- (sun-, “with”) +‎ ἕδρᾱ (hédrā, “seat”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.né.dri.on/ → /syˈne.ðri.on/ → /siˈne.ðri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.né.dri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈne.dri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈne.ðri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈne.ðri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈne.ðri.on/

Noun

σῠνέδρῐον • (sunédrion) n (genitive σῠνεδρῐ́ου); second declension

1. council (advising or governing body)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ σῠνέδρῐον; τοῦ σῠνεδρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sunédrion	τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sunedríō	τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tà sunédria
Genitive	τοῦ σῠνεδρῐ́ου toû sunedríou	τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sunedríoin	τῶν σῠνεδρῐ́ων tôn sunedríōn
Dative	τῷ σῠνεδρῐ́ῳ tôi sunedríōi	τοῖν σῠνεδρῐ́οιν toîn sunedríoin	τοῖς σῠνεδρῐ́οις toîs sunedríois
Accusative	τὸ σῠνέδρῐον tò sunédrion	τὼ σῠνεδρῐ́ω tṑ sunedríō	τᾰ̀ σῠνέδρῐᾰ tà sunédria
Vocative	σῠνέδρῐον sunédrion	σῠνεδρῐ́ω sunedríō	σῠνέδρῐᾰ sunédria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Greek: συνέδριο (synédrio)
• → English: synedrion
• → Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín)
  • → English: Sanhedrin
  • → French: sanhédrin
  • → Spanish: sanedrín

Further reading

• “συνέδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συνέδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4892 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • board idem, page 86.
  • commission idem, page 148.
  • committee idem, page 148.
  • congress idem, page 160.
  • council idem, page 176.
  • meeting idem, page 522.
  • session idem, page 756.
  • sitting idem, page 779.
  • synod idem, page 851.