Word origin
[1570–80; ‹ LL ‹ Gk
synaíresis act of taking together, equiv. to
syn- syn- + (
h)
aire- (s. of
haireîn to take) +
-sis -sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1570–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: duster, pigeonhole, skeleton, snag, splitsyn- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, having the same function as co- (synthesis; synoptic); used, with the meaning “with,” “together,” in the formation of compound words (synsepalous) or “synthetic” in such compounds (syngas); -sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: analysis, anamnesis, crisis, prolepsis, thesis