συνεκδοχή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From συνεκδέχομαι (sunekdékhomai) +‎ -ή (-ḗ) and συν- (sun-) +‎ ἐκδοχή (ekdokhḗ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.neɡ.do.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/ → /si.neɡ.ðoˈçi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.neɡ.do.kʰɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sy.neɡ.doˈkʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.neɡ.ðoˈçi/

Noun

σῠνεκδοχή • (sunekdokhḗ) f (genitive σῠνεκδοχῆς); first declension

1. understanding one thing with another
2. (rhetoric) synecdoche

Declension

First declension of ἡ σῠνεκδοχή; τῆς σῠνεκδοχῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ σῠνεκδοχή hē sunekdokhḗ
Genitive	τῆς σῠνεκδοχῆς tês sunekdokhês
Dative	τῇ σῠνεκδοχῇ têi sunekdokhêi
Accusative	τὴν σῠνεκδοχήν tḕn sunekdokhḗn
Vocative	σῠνεκδοχή sunekdokhḗ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: synecdochē
  • → Dutch: synecdoche
  • → English: synecdoche
  • → Esperanto: sinekdoĥo
  • → Finnish: synekdokee
  • → French: synecdoque
  • → German: Synekdoche
  • → Italian: sineddoche
  • → Portuguese: sinédoque
  • → Romanian: sinecdocă
  • → Spanish: sinécdoque
• → Russian: сине́кдоха (sinékdoxa)
  • → Kazakh: синекдоха (sinekdoxa)
• → Swedish: synekdoke

Further reading

• συνεκδοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “συνεκδοχή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “συνεκδοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press