Ancient Greek

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

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

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

Noun

συμπόσιον • ‎(sumpósion) n ‎(genitive συμποσίου); second declension

1. drinking party, entertainment, feast, banquet, convivium, symposium
2. party, group

Inflection

Derived terms

• συμποσιαστής ‎(sumposiastḗs)
• συμπότης ‎(sumpótēs)

References

• συμπόσιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συμπόσιον» 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
• “G4849”, 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.
  • bout idem, page 91.
  • carousal idem, page 114.
  • conviviallty idem, page 172.
  • drinking bout idem, page 252.
  • feast idem, page 312.
  • party idem, page 595.
  • potation idem, page 629.