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: /sýn/ → /syn/ → /sin/

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

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