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3-letter words (3 found)

NYS,SNY,SYN,

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Definitions and meaning of syn

syn

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek συν- (sun-, “with, together”), having the same function as co- (“synthesis, synoptic”).

Adjective

syn (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°.
Coordinate terms
  • (chemistry): anti

Etymology 2

Clipping of synonym.

Alternative forms

  • syn.

Noun

syn (plural syns)

  1. Abbreviation of synonym.

Etymology 3

Clipping of synthetic.

Alternative forms

  • synth

Adjective

syn (comparative more syn, superlative most syn)

  1. Abbreviation of synthetic.

Anagrams

  • NYS, sny

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Pronoun

syn

  1. obsolete form of sy (“his”)

Particle

syn

  1. obsolete form of se
  2. obsolete form of s'n

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech syn, from Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɪn]
  • Hyphenation: syn
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

syn m anim

  1. son
    Coordinate term: dcera

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “syn”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “syn”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “syn”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Anagrams

  • sny

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sýn, cognate to se.

Noun

syn

  1. vision, faculty of sight
  2. a way of perceiving something
    De havde et ganske andet syn på sandsynlighedsfeltsbegrebet.
    They had quite another view of the concept of the probability field.
    Sikke dog et forskruet og forældet menneskesyn!
    What a twisted and antiquated view of humans!

Declension

Derived terms

  • tunnelsyn

Noun

syn

  1. vision (mystical event)
    Shamanen påstår at have fået et syn.
    The shaman claims to have received a vision.

Declension

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *synъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsin/
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: syn

Noun

syn m pers (diminutive synk or synulk, related adjective sënowsczi)

  1. son (male offspring)
    Coordinate term: córka
  2. son (familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “sin”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 193
  • Jan Trepczyk (1994) “syn”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “syn”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[1]
  • “syn”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɨn/

Noun

syn m anim (diminutive synk)

  1. son (male offspring)

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • źowka (“daughter”)
  • nan (“father”)
  • maś (“mother”)

Derived terms

  • synašk

References

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “syn”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “syn”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

syn

  1. alternative form of synne

Etymology 2

Noun

syn

  1. alternative form of synnen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sýn.

Noun

syn n (definite singular synet, indefinite plural syn or syner, definite plural syna or synene, genitive syne)

  1. sight, eyesight, vision (ability to see)
  2. a sight
    et vakkert syn ― a beautiful sight
    komme til syne [old genitive form] ― come into sight
  3. a vision or hallucination
  4. a premonition
  5. a view (opinion)

Derived terms

References

  • “syn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /syːn/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sýn.

Noun

syn n (definite singular synet, indefinite plural syn, definite plural syna)
syn f (definite singular syna, indefinite plural syner, definite plural synene)

  1. sight, eyesight, vision (ability to see)
  2. a sight
    eit vakkert syn - a beautiful sight
  3. (especially feminine) a vision
  4. (feminine plural only) hallucinations
  5. a view (opinion)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

syn

  1. imperative of syna

References

  • “syn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sy̑nъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈsɨn/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈsin/

Noun

syn m pers

  1. son (male offspring)
  2. son (male member of a group, especially a family community)
  3. (Christianity) Son

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: syn

References

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “syn”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old English

Verb

sȳn

  1. alternative form of sīen

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sy̑nъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /sin/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /sin/

Noun

syn m pers (diminutive synek)

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) son (male offspring)
  2. (Christianity, attested in Lesser Poland) Son
    Synonyms: Syn dziewiczy, Syn Boży, jedyny Syn Boga wszechmogącego, Syn Człowieczy, Syn Nawyszszego
  3. (figuratively) son (someone that one views as a son)
  4. (attested in Greater Poland) used in some curses
  5. (biblical, attested in Lesser Poland) son (male member of a community)
  6. (attested in Lesser Poland) son (familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Polish: syn
  • Silesian: syn

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “syn”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “syn”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “syn”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
  • Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “syn”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Old Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sy̑nъ.

Noun

syn m pers

  1. son (male offspring)
  2. son (male member of some community)
  3. son (familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person)

Descendants

  • Pannonian Rusyn: син (sin)
  • Slovak: syn

References

  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “syn”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sjón, from Proto-Germanic *siuniz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /syːn/

Noun

sȳn f

  1. sight, ability to see
  2. appearance

Declension

Descendants

  • Swedish: syn

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish syn.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɘn
  • Syllabification: syn

Noun

syn m pers (diminutive synek, related adjective synowski)

  1. son (male offspring)
    Coordinate term: córka
  2. son (familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person)
  3. (literary) son (member of a community)

Declension

Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), syn is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 4 times in essays, 41 times in fiction, and 36 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 95 times, making it the 668th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • syn in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • syn in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “syn”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “SYN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.05.2021
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “syn”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “syn”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “syn”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 539

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish syn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Syllabification: syn

Noun

syn m pers (diminutive synek, related adjective synowy)

  1. son (male offspring)
    Coordinate term: cera

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • syn in silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak syn, from Proto-Slavic *synъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sin]
  • Rhymes: -in

Noun

syn m pers (diminutive synček)

  1. son (male offspring)
    Coordinate term: dcéra

Declension

Derived terms

  • synovský
  • synovsky
  • synovstvo
  • synáčik

Further reading

  • “syn”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovincian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *synъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Syllabification: syn

Noun

syn m pers

  1. son (male offspring)

Further reading

  • Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “sḯn”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎[10] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 1023

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sȳn, from Old Norse sýn, sjón, from Proto-Germanic *siuniz.

Pronunciation

Noun

syn c

  1. sight (ability to see), vision
  2. a sight, a view
  3. a vision, a revelation (of the future)

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

  • nys

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Noun

syn m pers

  1. son (male offspring)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • “syn” in Soblex

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from synnu (“to surprise”).

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /sɨːn/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /siːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɨːn

Adjective

syn (feminine singular syn, plural synion, equative syned, comparative synach, superlative synaf, not mutable)

  1. astonished, astounded
  2. dazed, stunned
  3. aghast, frightened
  4. amazing, astonishing
    Synonyms: syndodol, syfrdanol

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “syn”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sin/

Determiner

syn

  1. his (third-person singular masculine possessive determiner)
  2. its (third-person singular neuter possessive determiner)

See also

Further reading

  • “syn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org