σύν

See also: συν, συν-, and Appendix:Variations of "sun"

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ξύν (xún)

EtymologyEdit

Homeric and Early Attic ξύν (xún) and Mycenaean ku-su- are its supposed early form. If not, with difficulty ( -υ- < *-o- is expected, but -σ- < *-s- and -σ- < *-ξ- are not), from Proto-Indo-European *som-, from *sem-, it might be a composition of this and one other element.

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /sýn/ → /syn/ → /sin/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /sýn/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syn/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /syn/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syn/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sin/

PrepositionEdit

σῠ́ν • (sún) (invokes dative)

1. beside, with.

Usage notesEdit

• In compounds it has similar applications, including completeness.

Derived termsEdit

• συν- (sun-)

DescendantsEdit

• English: syn-, sym-, via συν- (sun-), συμ- (sum-)
• Greek: συν (syn)

ReferencesEdit

• σύν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σύν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σύν» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4862”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conjunction idem, page 160.
  • with idem, page 983.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press