# συνθήκη
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ξυνθήκη (xunthḗkē) — Old Attic

### Etymology

From σῠντῐ́θημῐ (suntíthēmi, “to place or put together”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /syn.tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/ → /synˈθi.ci/ → /sinˈθi.ci/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /syn.tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /synˈtʰe̝.ke̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /synˈθi.ci/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /synˈθi.ci/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /sinˈθi.ci/

### Noun

σῠνθήκη • (sunthḗkē) f (genitive σῠνθήκης); first declension
* a compounding, especially of words and sentences
* convention, compact
** article of a compact or treaty
* coffin

#### Derived terms

* ἐπῐσῠνθήκη (episunthḗkē)

#### Descendants

* → Aramaic: צנדוק (ṣəndūq)
** → Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
*** Egyptian Arabic: صندوق (sandūʔ, sundūʔ)
*** Gulf Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūg)
*** Juba Arabic: sonduk
*** Maltese: senduq
*** Moroccan Arabic: صندوق (ṣandūq)
*** → Amharic: ሳንዱቅ (sanduḳ)
**** → Oromo: saanduqa
**** → Tigrinya: ሳንዱቕ (sanduḳʰ)
*** → Aramaic:
**** → Classical Syriac: ܨܢܕܘܩܐ (ṣandūqā), ܣܢܕܘܩܐ (sandūqā)
*** → Classical Persian: صَنْدُوق (sandūq)
**** → Assamese: চন্দুক (sonduk)
**** → Bengali: সিন্দুক (śinduk)
**** → Azerbaijani: sandıq
**** → Bashkir: һандыҡ (handıq)
**** → Hindustani:
***** → Hindi: संदूक़ (sandūq)
***** → Urdu: صندوق (sandūq)
**** → Kannada: ಸಂದೂಕ (sandūka)
**** → Kazakh: сандық (sandyq)
**** → Odia: ସିନ୍ଦୁକ (sinduka)
**** → Ottoman Turkish: صندوق (sanduk)
***** → Turkish: sandık
***** → Albanian: sënduk
***** → Bulgarian: сандъ́к (sandǎ́k)
***** → Macedonian: са́ндак (sándak)
***** → Romanian: sunduc
***** → Russian: сунду́к (sundúk) (via Turkic)
****** → Solombala English: сундукъ (sunduk)
****** → Russenorsk: sondok
***** → Serbo-Croatian: са̀ндук / sànduk
**** → Pashto: صندوق (sandúq)
**** → Punjabi: ਸੰਦੂਕ਼ (sandūq), صندوق (ṣndoq)
**** → Uyghur: ساندۇق (sanduq)
**** → Uzbek: sandiq
*** → Georgian: ზანდუკი (zanduḳi)
*** → Kabyle: asenduq
*** → Old Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk)
**** → Armenian: սնդուկ (snduk), սնտուկ (sntuk)
*** → Hausa: sàndūƙī̀
*** → Mabaan: canduuk
*** → Sango: sandûku
*** → Somali: sanduuq
*** → Swahili: sanduku
**** → Kikuyu: ithandũkũ
**** → Kituba: sandúku
**** → Lingala: sandúku

### Further reading

* “συνθήκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* συνθήκη 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. compact idem, page 149.convention idem, page 173.pact idem, page 588.

## Greek
### Etymology

Ancient Greek συνθήκη (sunthḗkē).

### Noun

συνθήκη • (synthíki) f (plural συνθήκες)
* (law) treaty, agreement, mutual acceptance
    Η Συνθήκη για τη Μη Διάδοση των Πυρηνικών ΌπλωνI Synthíki gia ti Mi Diádosi ton Pyrinikón ÓplonThe Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
* (in the plural): conditions, circumstances (a set of something make up a situation)
    Ζούσε κάτω από πολύ δύσκολες συνθήκες.Zoúse káto apó polý dýskoles synthíkes.She used to live under very difficult conditions.

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | συνθήκη • | συνθήκες • |
| genitive | συνθήκης • | συνθηκών • |
| accusative | συνθήκη • | συνθήκες • |
| vocative | συνθήκη • | συνθήκες • |

#### Related terms

* κατά συνθήκην ψεύδη (katá synthíkin psévdi, “conventional lies”)
* συνομιλία f (“dialogue, exchange of views”)

#### See also

* συμφωνία f (symfonía, “agreement, symphony”)