συνείδησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύνοιδα (súnoida), + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/ → /syˈni.ði.sis/ → /siˈni.ði.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.něː.dɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈni.de̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈni.ði.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈni.ði.sis/

Noun

σῠνείδησῐς • (sŭneídēsĭs) f (genitive σῠνειδήσεως); third declension

1. consciousness, perception of one's own thoughts
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 4:2
   • New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2:19
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 4.65
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:2
   • 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Belopoeica 73
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 10.20
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
2. consciousness of right or wrong, conscience
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 3.24.11–12
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Amores (Affairs of the Heart) 49
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander, Monostichoi 654
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 8
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 23:1
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 24:!6
   • New Testament, First Epistle to Timothy 3:9
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:7
   • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 10:27

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῠνείδησῐς; τῆς σῠνειδήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠνείδησῐς hē sŭneídēsĭs	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ sŭneidḗsei	αἱ σῠνειδήσεις hai sŭneidḗseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠνειδήσεως tês sŭneidḗseōs	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn sŭneidēséoin	τῶν σῠνειδήσεων tôn sŭneidḗseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠνειδήσει têi sŭneidḗsei	τοῖν σῠνειδησέοιν toîn sŭneidēséoin	ταῖς σῠνειδήσεσῐ / σῠνειδήσεσῐν taîs sŭneidḗsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠνείδησῐν tḕn sŭneídēsĭn	τὼ σῠνειδήσει tṑ sŭneidḗsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠνειδήσεις tā̀s sŭneidḗseis
Vocative	σῠνείδησῐ sŭneídēsĭ	σῠνειδήσει sŭneidḗsei	σῠνειδήσεις sŭneidḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: συνείδηση (syneídisi)
• → Latin: conscientia (calque) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian: სჳნდისი (swindisi) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “συνείδησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συνείδησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4893 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “συνείδησις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011