Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• συμφορή ‎(sumphorḗ) Ionic

Noun

συμφορά • ‎(sumphorá) f ‎(genitive συμφοράς); first declension

1. a bringing together, collecting, contribution
   • 90 CE – 144 CE, Polemon of Laodicea, Cynaegirus 24
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Causis et Signis Diuturnorum Morborum 2.11
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 44
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Lexiphanes 6
2. an event, circumstance, chance
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.32
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.49
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 1020
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 33
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1145
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 1204
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 536
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.140
   1. mishap, mischance, misfortune
      • 600 BCE – 500 BCE, Hipponax, Collected Works 49.4
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.41
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.190
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.77
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 445
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1179
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 436
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.87
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.64
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.42
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 2.8
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 885
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.88
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.122
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.1.37
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 99
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 86
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.27
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 58
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 854.D
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 934.B
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.83
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.79
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.35
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.216
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 7.4
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 11.9
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 84.E
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 406
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 68
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 253
      • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.65
   2. (rarely in a good sense) good luck, happy issue
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 24
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1230
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 1064
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 1031
      • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 1155
      • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 457
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 655

Inflection

References

• συμφορά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συμφορά» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accident idem, page 6.
  • adventure idem, page 14.
  • adversity idem, page 15.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • blow idem, page 85.
  • calamity idem, page 108.
  • casualty idem, page 117.
  • catastrophe idem, page 118.
  • chance idem, page 123.
  • circumstance idem, page 133.
  • coincidence idem, page 142.
  • contingency idem, page 168.
  • disaster idem, page 228.
  • episode idem, page 279.
  • event idem, page 285.
  • eventuality idem, page 285.
  • evil idem, page 286.
  • fact idem, page 300.
  • fatality idem, page 309.
  • fate idem, page 309.
  • Fate idem, page 1010.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • Fortune idem, page 1011.
  • hap idem, page 384.
  • hazard idem, page 389.
  • ill idem, page 414.
  • incident idem, page 428.
  • infliction idem, page 438.
  • issue idem, page 461.
  • lot idem, page 501.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • mischance idem, page 533.
  • misfortune idem, page 534.
  • occurrence idem, page 569.
  • phase idem, page 610.
  • plight idem, page 621.
  • result idem, page 706.
  • sequel idem, page 754.
  • stroke idem, page 827.
  • tragedy idem, page 886.
  • unhappiness idem, page 920.
  • vicissitude idem, page 950.
  • visitation idem, page 954.