συμπόσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σῠμπότης (sumpótēs, “fellow drinker”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), from σῠμπῑ́νω (sumpī́nō, “I drink together”) +‎ -της (-tēs), from σῠν- (sun-, “with, together”) +‎ πῑ́νω (pī́nō, “I drink”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sym.pó.si.on/ → /symˈpo.si.on/ → /simˈbo.si.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sym.pó.si.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /symˈpo.si.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /symˈpo.si.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /symˈpo.si.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /simˈbo.si.on/

Noun

σῠμπόσῐον • (sumpósion) n (genitive σῠμποσῐ́ου); second declension

1. drinking party, entertainment, feast, banquet, convivium, symposium
2. party, group

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῠμπόσῐον; τοῦ σῠμποσῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῠμπόσῐον tò sumpósion	τὼ σῠμποσῐ́ω tṑ sumposíō	τᾰ̀ σῠμπόσῐᾰ tà sumpósia
Genitive	τοῦ σῠμποσῐ́ου toû sumposíou	τοῖν σῠμποσῐ́οιν toîn sumposíoin	τῶν σῠμποσῐ́ων tôn sumposíōn
Dative	τῷ σῠμποσῐ́ῳ tôi sumposíōi	τοῖν σῠμποσῐ́οιν toîn sumposíoin	τοῖς σῠμποσῐ́οις toîs sumposíois
Accusative	τὸ σῠμπόσῐον tò sumpósion	τὼ σῠμποσῐ́ω tṑ sumposíō	τᾰ̀ σῠμπόσῐᾰ tà sumpósia
Vocative	σῠμπόσῐον sumpósion	σῠμποσῐ́ω sumposíō	σῠμπόσῐᾰ sumpósia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῠμποσῐᾰ́ζω (sumposiázō)
• σῠμποσῐαῖος (sumposiaîos)
• σῠμποσῐᾰκός (sumposiakós)
• σῠμποσῐᾰρχέω (sumposiarkhéō)
• σῠμποσῐᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (sumposiarkhíā)
• σῠμποσῐ́ᾰρχος (sumposíarkhos)
• σῠμποσῐᾰστής (sumposiastḗs)
• σῠμπόσῐος (sumpósios)

 

Descendants

• → Greek: συμπόσιο (sympósio) (learned)
• → Latin: symposium
• → Latin: compōtātiō (calque)

Further reading

• “συμπόσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συμπόσιον 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
• G4849 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.
  • bout idem, page 91.
  • carousal idem, page 114.
  • conviviallty idem, page 173.
  • drinking bout idem, page 253.
  • feast idem, page 312.
  • party idem, page 595.
  • potation idem, page 629.