Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /symɸonía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sỹfonía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sifonía/

Noun

συμφωνίᾱ • ‎(sumphōníā) f ‎(genitive συμφονίας); first declension

1. agreement in sound, symphony
2. (music) accord, concord (e.g. octave)
3. numerous sounds played together, a concert of vocal or instrumental (or both) music
4. music
5. band, orchestra
6. type of musical instrument
7. harmony, agreement, accord

Inflection

Descendants

• English: symphony
• Greek: τσαμπούνα f ‎(tsampoúna, “bagpipes”)
• Italian: zampogna f ‎(“bagpipes”)
• Latin: symphonia f ‎(“music, symphony”)
• Russian: симфо́ния f ‎(simfónija, “symphony”)

References

• συμφωνία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συμφωνία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G4858”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accord idem, page 6.
  • agreement idem, page 20.
  • compatibility idem, page 150.
  • concert idem, page 155.
  • concord idem, page 156.
  • conformity idem, page 159.
  • correspondence idem, page 175.
  • harmony idem, page 386.
  • symphony idem, page 850.
  • unanimity idem, page 906.
  • union idem, page 922.
  • unity idem, page 923.

Greek

Noun

συμφωνία • ‎(symfonía) f ‎(plural συμφωνίες)

1. agreement, concurrence
2. consent
3. arrangement, pact
4. (music) symphony
5. settlement

Declension

Related terms

• see: συμφωνώ ‎(symfonó, “to agree, to agree with”)

Antonyms

• αντιγνωμία f ‎(antignomía)
• ασυμφωνία f ‎(asymfonía)
• διαφωνία f ‎(diafonía)
• διχογνωμία f ‎(dichognomía)

See also

• συνθήκη f ‎(synthíki, “treaty”)