Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σῠνέρεισῐς ‎(sunéreisis) codical variant

Noun

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

1. taking or drawing together; contraction, closing
   • 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 10.3
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.489.f
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Collected Works 2.59
2. 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
3. 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
4. (in grammar):
   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

Declension

Antonyms

• (contraction of front): αὔξησις ‎(aúxēsis)
• (generalization): διαίρεσις ‎(diaíresis)
• (synaeresis): διαίρεσις ‎(diaíresis)

Descendants

• Latin: synaeresis

References

• συναίρεσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press