σύνοψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σῠν- (sŭn-, “with”) +‎ ὄψῐς (ópsĭs, “aspect, appearance”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sý.nop.sis/ → /ˈsy.nop.sis/ → /ˈsi.nop.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sý.nop.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.nop.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.nop.sis/

Noun

σῠ́νοψῐς • (sŭ́nopsĭs) f (genitive σῠνόψῐος or σῠνόψεως); third declension

1. (both literal and figurative) a seeing all together, general view, shared view
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 858c
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 537c
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.4.1
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.77
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.27.1
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 38.18.6
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 24.1
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Character of Thucydides 6
2. epitome, synopsis, abridgment
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.1057c
   1. recapitulation
      • Herm., in Phdr. p.158A
3. estimate
   • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 669.55
   • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 669.58
   • Sammelb. 5230.50
   • PRyl. 221.24
   • Oxyrhynchus Papyri 896.6
   • Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1450.12
4. expense
   • Sammelb. 7475.14

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σῠ́νοψῐς; τῆς σῠνόψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠ́νοψῐς hē sŭ́nopsĭs	τὼ σῠνόψει tṑ sŭnópsei	αἱ σῠνόψεις hai sŭnópseis
Genitive	τῆς σῠνόψεως tês sŭnópseōs	τοῖν σῠνοψέοιν toîn sŭnopséoin	τῶν σῠνόψεων tôn sŭnópseōn
Dative	τῇ σῠνόψει têi sŭnópsei	τοῖν σῠνοψέοιν toîn sŭnopséoin	ταῖς σῠνόψεσῐ / σῠνόψεσῐν taîs sŭnópsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠ́νοψῐν tḕn sŭ́nopsĭn	τὼ σῠνόψει tṑ sŭnópsei	τᾱ̀ς σῠνόψεις tā̀s sŭnópseis
Vocative	σῠ́νοψῐ sŭ́nopsĭ	σῠνόψει sŭnópsei	σῠνόψεις sŭnópseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῠνοψίζω (sŭnopsízō)
• σῠνοψοφᾰγέω (sŭnopsophăgéō)

Descendants

• → Greek: σύνοψη (sýnopsi) (learned)
• Latin: synopsis
  • English: synopsis
  • French: synopsis
• Russian: сино́псис (sinópsis)

References

• “σύνοψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σύνοψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bird's-eye view idem, page 79.
  • synopsis idem, page 851.