Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• συγγενεύς ‎(sungeneús)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /syŋɡenís/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syɲɟenís/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sĩɟenís/

Adjective

συγγενής • ‎(sungenḗs) m, f ‎(neuter συγγενές); third declension

1. born with, congenital, innate, natural, inborn
   • Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.16
   • Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.69
   • Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 83
   • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 691
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 832
   • Pindar, Nemean Ode 1.41
2. of the same family, akin to, related
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.109
   • Herodotus, Histories 3.2
   • Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.236
   1. (substantive) kinsman, relative
      • Aristophanes, Peace 618
      • Aristophanes, The Birds 368
   2. (neuter substantive) relationship
      • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 289
      • Sophocles, Electra 1469
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
   3. (figuratively) akin, of like kind
      • Aristophanes, The Knights 1280, (Compare Thesmophoriazusae 574)
      • Aristophanes, The Acharnians 789
3. (at the Persian court) a title bestowed by the king as a mark of honour
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.27
   • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.31

Inflection

References

• συγγενής in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συγγενής» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4773”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • akin idem, page 21.
  • allied idem, page 23.
  • cognate idem, page 142.
  • congenital idem, page 160.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • german, germane idem, page 357.
  • hereditary idem, page 397.
  • in-born idem, page 426.
  • in-bred idem, page 427.
  • ingrained idem, page 440.
  • innate idem, page 442.
  • instinctive idem, page 446.
  • kindred idem, page 469.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • natural idem, page 551.
  • relation idem, page 689.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek συγγενής ‎(sungenḗs, “congenital”, “inborn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siŋɟeˈnis/

Adjective

συγγενής • ‎(syngenís) m ‎(feminine συγγενής, neuter συγγενές)

1. related
2. congenital

Declension

Synonyms

• συγγενικός ‎(syngenikós)

Noun

συγγενής • ‎(syngenís) m, f ‎(plural συγγενείς)

1. relative, relation

   μακρινός συγγενής   (distant relative)

   στενός συγγενής   (close relative)

Declension