συναίρεσις

Ancient Greek

From σῠναιρέω (sŭnairéō) +‎ -σῐς (-sĭs).

σῠναίρεσῐς • (sŭnaíresĭs) f (genitive σῠναιρέσεως); third declension

taking or drawing together; contraction, closing
- 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 10.3
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.489f
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 2.59
contraction of front; shortening, reduction of an estimated distance
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Asclepiodotus, Tactics 11.7
- 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Geography 1.8.3
- 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fract. 19
aggregation; synthesis; concentration; generalization
- 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 96
- 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 277
- 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 280
- 490 CE – 560 CE, Simplicius, On Aristotle's Physics 635.32
- Elias, in Porph. 76.19
(in grammar): synaeresis of two adjacent vowels within one word into a diphthong or a macron vowel.
1. (properly) synaeresis, whereby two vowels are not changed, but coalesce into a diphthong, as ὀϊστός, οἰστός
  - Quint., Inst. 1.5.17
  - 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 132.25
2. (but also) contraction, as of κύημα to κῦμα
  - 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.642

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠναίρεσῐς hē sŭnaíresĭs	τὼ σῠναιρέσει tṑ sŭnairései	αἱ σῠναιρέσεις hai sŭnairéseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠναιρέσεως tês sŭnairéseōs	τοῖν σῠναιρεσέοιν toîn sŭnaireséoin	τῶν σῠναιρέσεων tôn sŭnairéseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠναιρέσει têi sŭnairései	τοῖν σῠναιρεσέοιν toîn sŭnaireséoin	ταῖς σῠναιρέσεσῐ / σῠναιρέσεσῐν taîs sŭnairésesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠναίρεσῐν tḕn sŭnaíresĭn	τὼ σῠναιρέσει tṑ sŭnairései	τᾱ̀ς σῠναιρέσεις tā̀s sŭnairéseis
Vocative	σῠναίρεσῐ sŭnaíresĭ	σῠναιρέσει sŭnairései	σῠναιρέσεις sŭnairéseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.