Etymograph

English

synesis

Synesis comes from Ancient Greek σύνεσις ‘unification, meeting, intelligence’, from σῠνῑ́ημῐ ‘bring together’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-1‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*yīyēmi1reconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἵημι2‘to send’
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσῠνῑ́ημῐ3‘bring together’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσύνεσις4súnesis‘unification, meeting, intelligence’
  6. Englishtodaysynesis4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημι
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek συνίημι
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek σύνεσις
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English synesis

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημι‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*yīyēmiWiktionary, Ancient Greek ἵημιreconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἵημιWiktionary, Ancient Greek συνίημι‘to send’
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσῠνῑ́ημῐWiktionary, Ancient Greek σύνεσις‘bring together’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσύνεσιςWiktionary, English synesissúnesis‘unification, meeting, intelligence’
  6. EnglishtodaysynesisWiktionary, English synesis

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’

year, project, hour, disease, object, ease, jet, adjacent, injection, trajectory, inject, jess, conjecture, ejection, jetty, abject, eject, ejaculation, gist, ejaculate, jut, subjection, interject, jettison, jetsam, joist, 41 more

through Ancient Greek ἵημι ‘to send’

catheter, enema, iambic, 8 more

Today it means

noun A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “synesis”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Ancient Greek ἵημι, Ancient Greek συνίημι, Ancient Greek σύνεσις. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / synesis

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