σύνδικος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σῠν- (sun-, “with”) +‎ δίκη (díkē, “justice”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjective forming suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sýn.di.kos/ → /ˈsyn.di.kos/ → /ˈsin.di.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sýn.di.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsyn.di.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyn.di.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsyn.di.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsin.di.kos/

Noun

σῠ́νδῐκος • (súndikos) m (genitive σῠνδῐ́κου); second declension

1. advocate, barrister, lawyer, pleader

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῠ́νδῐκος; τοῦ σῠνδῐ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῠ́νδῐκος ho súndikos	τὼ σῠνδῐ́κω tṑ sundíkō	οἱ σῠ́νδῐκοι hoi súndikoi
Genitive	τοῦ σῠνδῐ́κου toû sundíkou	τοῖν σῠνδῐ́κοιν toîn sundíkoin	τῶν σῠνδῐ́κων tôn sundíkōn
Dative	τῷ σῠνδῐ́κῳ tôi sundíkōi	τοῖν σῠνδῐ́κοιν toîn sundíkoin	τοῖς σῠνδῐ́κοις toîs sundíkois
Accusative	τὸν σῠ́νδῐκον tòn súndikon	τὼ σῠνδῐ́κω tṑ sundíkō	τοὺς σῠνδῐ́κους toùs sundíkous
Vocative	σῠ́νδῐκε súndike	σῠνδῐ́κω sundíkō	σῠ́νδῐκοι súndikoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σύνδικος (sýndikos)
• → Latin: syndicus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “σύνδικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σύνδικος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σύνδικος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σύνδικος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • advocate idem, page 15.
  • barrister idem, page 63.
  • lawyer idem, page 480.
  • pleader idem, page 619.