συμφωνία

From σῠ́μφωνος (súmphōnos, “agreeing in sound, harmonious”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from σῠν- (sun-, “with, together”) +‎ φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱ • (sumphōníā) f (genitive σῠμφωνῐ́ᾱς); 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

• Greek: συμφωνία (symfonía)
• → Latin: symphōnia f (“music, symphony”)
  • → English: symphony
  • → French: symphonie
  • Italian: zampogna f (“bagpipes”)
    • → Greek: τσαμπούνα f (tsampoúna, “bagpipes”)
  • → Italian: sinfonia
• Russian: симфо́ния f (simfónija, “symphony”)

• 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 176.
  • harmony idem, page 386.
  • symphony idem, page 850.
  • unanimity idem, page 906.
  • union idem, page 922.
  • unity idem, page 923.

From Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía).

συμφωνία • (symfonía) f (plural συμφωνίες)

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

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

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

• συνθήκη f (synthíki, “treaty”)