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σύγχυσιν (synchysin)

σύγχυσιν is an Ancient Greek form of σύγχυσις, meaning “confusion”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.111: … λύπην εἶναι συστολὴν ἄλογον· εἴδη δʼ αὐτῆς ἔλεον, φθόνον, ζῆλον, ζηλοτυπίαν, ἄχθος, ἐνόχλησιν, ἀνίαν, ὀδύνην, σύγχυσιν. ἔλεον μὲν οὖν εἶναι λύπην ὡς ἐπʼ ἀναξίως κακοπαθοῦντι, φθόνον δὲ λύπην ἐπʼ ἀλλοτρίοις ἀγαθοῖς, ζῆλον δὲ λύπη …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 354: ὡς ἄνολβον εἶχες ὄμμα σύγχυσίν τʼ, εἰ μὴ νεῶν

All forms of σύγχυσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.