# σύγκλητος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ξύγκλητος (xúnklētos)

### Etymology

From σῠγκᾰλέω (sunkaléō, “to call to council, convoke, convene”) +‎ -τος (-tos). In the Byzantine sense, a semantic loan from Latin senātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sýŋ.klɛː.tos/ → /ˈsyŋ.ɡli.tos/ → /ˈsiŋ.ɡli.tos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /sýŋ.klɛː.tos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈsyŋ.kle̝.tos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈsyŋ.ɡli.tos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈsyŋ.ɡli.tos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈsiŋ.ɡli.tos/

### Adjective

σῠ́γκλητος • (súnklētos) m or f (neuter σῠ́γκλητον); second declension
* called together, summoned, invited (guests); convened, convoked; specially assembled

#### Derived terms

* σύγκλητος ἐκκλησία (súnklētos ekklēsía, “special assembly”), as opposed to κυρία ἐκκλησία (kuría ekklēsía, “ordinary assembly”)

### Noun

σῠ́γκλητος • (súnklētos) f (genitive σῠγκλήτου); second declension
* (government, politics) synclite (specially summoned council, assembly of elders (as at classical Athens); legislative body, parliament, congress, senate)
* (Koine, history) the Roman Senate in Ancient Rome; supreme administrative and legislative body of the Roman Republic and advisory council of the Roman Empire, convening in the city of Rome
* (Byzantine, history) synclite (the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Senate; the legislative, administrative, advisory body of the Byzantine Roman Empire, convening in the city of Constantinople)

#### Synonyms

* βουλή (boulḗ)
* γερουσῐ́ᾱ (gerousíā)
* ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ (ekklēsíā)

#### Derived terms

* σῠγκλητῐκός (sunklētikós)

#### Related terms

* σῠγκᾰλέω (sunkaléō), σῠγκᾰλῶ (sunkalô)

#### Descendants

* Greek: σύγκλητος (sýgklitos)
* → English: synclite
* → Late Latin: synclētus, synclītus
* → Russian: сигкли́т (sigklít), синкли́т (sinklít)

### Further reading

* “σύγκλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “σύγκλητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* σύγκλητος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek σῠ́γκλητος (súnklētos), from the ancient adjective σῠ́γκλητος (súnklētos), from Ancient Greek σῠγκᾰλέω (sunkaléō, “to call to council, convoke, convene”), συγ- (syg-, “with, together”) +‎ κλητός (klitós, “called”), equivalent to συν- (syn-) +‎ καλώ (kaló, “to call, summon”) +‎ -τος (-tos). In historical sense, a semantic loan from Latin senātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiŋ.ɡli.tos/
* Hyphenation: σύ‧γκλη‧τος
* Old Hyphenation: σύγ‧κλη‧τος

### Noun

σύγκλητος • (sýgklitos) f (plural σύγκλητοι)
* senate
** university or HE governing body
** (government, politics) of national government
** (history) of Rome or Byzantine Roman Empire

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | σύγκλητος • | σύγκλητοι • |
| genitive | συγκλήτου • | συγκλήτων • |
| accusative | σύγκλητο • | συγκλήτους • |
| vocative | σύγκλητε •, σύγκλητο • | σύγκλητοι • |

#### Synonyms

* βουλή (voulí)
* γερουσία (gerousía)

#### Related terms

* see: συγκαλώ (sygkaló, “to convene, to convoke”)

#### Further reading

* σύγκλητος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$
* Σύγκλητος (Κωνσταντινούπολη) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$
* σύγκλητος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

### Further reading

* σύγκλητος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language