συνείδησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύνοιδα (súnoida), + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/ → /syˈni.ði.sis/ → /siˈni.ði.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈni.de̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈni.ði.sis/

Noun

σῠνείδησῐς • (suneídēsis) f (genitive σῠνειδήσεως); third declension

1. consciousness, perception of one's own thoughts
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 4:2
   • New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:19
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 4.65
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:2
   • 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Belopoeica 73
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 10.20
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
2. consciousness of right or wrong, conscience
   • AD 300–500, Stobaeus, Anthology 3.24.11–12
   • AD 125–200, Lucian, Amores (Affairs of the Heart) 49
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 654
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 8
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 23:1
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 24:!6
   • New Testament, First Epistle to Timothy 3:9
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:27

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῠνείδησῐς; τῆς σῠνειδήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠνείδησῐς hē suneídēsis	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei	αἱ σῠνειδήσεις hai suneidḗseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠνειδήσεως tês suneidḗseōs	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin	τῶν σῠνειδήσεων tôn suneidḗseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠνειδήσει têi suneidḗsei	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn suneidēséoin	ταῖς σῠνειδήσεσῐ / σῠνειδήσεσῐν taîs suneidḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠνείδησῐν tḕn suneídēsin	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ suneidḗsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠνειδήσεις tā̀s suneidḗseis
Vocative	σῠνείδησῐ suneídēsi	σῠνειδήσει suneidḗsei	σῠνειδήσεις suneidḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: συνείδηση (syneídisi)
• → Latin: conscientia (calque) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian: სჳნდისი (swindisi) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “συνείδησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συνείδησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4893 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• συνείδησις - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.