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From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.
synopsis (plural synopses)
- (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
- A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
- (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
- (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary
brief summary
- Afrikaans: sinopsis
- Albanian: konspekt (sq)
- Arabic: مُلَخَّص m (mulaḵḵaṣ)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: агля́д m (ahljád), рэзюмэ́ n (rezjumé)
- Bulgarian: обзо́р (bg) m (obzór), резюме́ (bg) n (rezjumé)
- Catalan: sinopsi f
- Chinese:
- Czech: přehled (cs) m, synopse (cs) f
- Danish: synopse (da) c, synopsis (da) c
- Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, synopsis (nl) f
- Esperanto: resumo, sinoptiko
- Estonian: kokkuvõte
- Finnish: tiivistelmä (fi), yhteenveto (fi), synopsis (fi)
- French: abrégé (fr) m, précis (fr) m, résumé (fr) m
- Galician: resumo m, sinopse (gl) f
- Georgian: მიმოხილვა (mimoxilva)
- German: Synopse (de) f, Übersicht (de) f, Zusammenfassung (de) f
- Greek: σύνοψη (el) f (sýnopsi), περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi)
- Ancient: σύνοψις f (súnopsis)
- Hebrew: תַקצִיר m (taktsír)
- Hungarian: összefoglalás (hu), összegzés (hu), áttekintés (hu), összefoglaló (hu)
- Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú m
- Italian: sinossi (it) f
- Japanese: 大意 (ja) (たいい, taii), 梗概 (ja) (こうがい, kōgai), 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō), あらすじ (ja) (arasuji)
- Korean: 대위(大意) (ko) (daewi), 경개(梗槪) (ko) (gyeonggae), 개요(槪要) (gaeyo)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: whakarāpopoto
- Polish: streszczenie (pl) m
- Portuguese: resumo (pt) m
- Romanian: sinopsis (ro) n
- Russian: кра́ткое описа́ние n (krátkoje opisánije), кра́ткий обзо́р m (krátkij obzór), сино́псис (ru) m (sinópsis), конспе́кт (ru) m (konspékt), обозре́ние (ru) n (obozrénije), резюме́ (ru) n (rezjumɛ́)
- Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: prehľad m, synopsa f
- Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m, sinopsis (es) f
- Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c, synopsis (sv) c, sammandrag (sv) n
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: özet (tr)
- Ukrainian: о́гляд (uk) m (óhljad), резюме́ n (rezjumé), сино́псис m (synópsys)
- Vietnamese: tóm tắt (vi)
- Welsh: crynodeb (cy)
- “synopsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “synopsis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Learned borrowing from Latin synopsis.
synopsis
Inflection of synopsis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | synopsis | synopsikset | |
genitive | synopsiksen | synopsisten synopsiksien | |
partitive | synopsista | synopsiksia | |
illative | synopsikseen | synopsiksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | synopsis | synopsikset | |
accusative | nom. | synopsis | synopsikset |
gen. | synopsiksen | ||
genitive | synopsiksen | synopsisten synopsiksien | |
partitive | synopsista | synopsiksia | |
inessive | synopsiksessa | synopsiksissa | |
elative | synopsiksesta | synopsiksista | |
illative | synopsikseen | synopsiksiin | |
adessive | synopsiksella | synopsiksilla | |
ablative | synopsikselta | synopsiksilta | |
allative | synopsikselle | synopsiksille | |
essive | synopsiksena | synopsiksina | |
translative | synopsikseksi | synopsiksiksi | |
abessive | synopsiksetta | synopsiksitta | |
instructive | — | synopsiksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
- “synopsis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
synopsis m or f (plural synopsis)
- a general overview or synoptic table of a topic
- (media) Plot summary of a movie
- “synopsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From Ancient Greek σῠ́νοψῐς (súnopsis, “shared view; estimate”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /syˈnop.sis/, [s̠ʏˈnɔps̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈnop.sis/, [siˈnɔpsis]
synopsis f (genitive synopsis or synopseōs or synopsios); third declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | synopsis | synopsēs synopseis |
Genitive | synopsis synopseōs synopsios |
synopsium |
Dative | synopsī | synopsibus |
Accusative | synopsim synopsin synopsem1 |
synopsēs synopsīs |
Ablative | synopsī synopse1 |
synopsibus |
Vocative | synopsis synopsi |
synopsēs synopseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
- Catalan: sinopsi
- English: synopsis
- French: synopsis
- Italian: sinossi
- Spanish: sinopsis
- Portuguese: sinopse
- “synopsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- synopsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
synopsis c
- Synonym of synops (“synopsis”)
Uninflected.