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σύντομον (syntomon)

σύντομον is an Ancient Greek form of σύντομος, meaning “short, concise”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.31: Κατεῖχον δὲ οἱ παῖδες πολλὰ ποιητῶν καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ Διογένους, πᾶσάν τʼ ἔφοδον σύντομον πρὸς τὸ εὐμνημόνευτον ἐπήσκει. ἐν οἴκῳ τʼ ἐδίδασκε διακονεῖσθαι λιτῇ τροφῇ χρωμένους καὶ ὕδωρ πίνοντας, ἐν χρ …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 69: … γε μετὰ ταῦτα ῥᾴδια ἤδη καὶ ἀπράγμονα καὶ οὐ πολλῆς διατριβῆς δεόμενα. καὶ ἔγωγε ἤδη χάριν οἶδά σοι ἐξευρόντι σύντομόν τινα ταύτην ἡμῖν καὶ ἀρίστην ὁδόν. Καὶ μὴν οὐδέπω χάριν ἄν μοι εἰδείης εἰκότως· οὐδὲν γάρ σοι ἐξευρηκὼς ἔδειξ …

All forms of σύντομος (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.