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σύνθεσιν (synthesin)

σύνθεσιν is an Ancient Greek form of σύνθεσις, meaning “composition, combination”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.52: … ν τὰ μὲν κατὰ περίπτωσιν ἐνοήθη, τὰ δὲ καθʼ ὁμοιότητα, τὰ δὲ κατʼ ἀναλογίαν, τὰ δὲ κατὰ μετάθεσιν, τὰ δὲ κατὰ σύνθεσιν, τὰ δὲ κατʼ ἐναντίωσιν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide 23: … θάπερ ἔφην, περὶ τὴν κυρίαν λέξιν μᾶλλον ἐσπούδασαν ἢ περὶ τὴν τροπικήν, ταύτην δὲ ὥσπερ ἥδυσμα παρελάμβανον, σύνθεσίν τε ὀνομάτων ὁμοίαν ἅπαντες ἐπετήδευσαν τὴν ἀφελῆ καὶ ἀνεπιτήδευτον, καὶ οὐδʼ ἐν τῷ σχηματίζειν τὰς λέξεις καὶ …

All forms of σύνθεσις (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.