syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

(Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time)


synthetase
synthetic
1. Made artificially by chemical synthesis, especially so as to resemble a natural product.
2. Not of natural origin; prepared, or made, artificially.
3. Not genuine, especially expressed but not genuinely felt: "He made synthetic expressions of sympathy."
4. A description of a proposition whose truth or falsity is a matter of facts and not merely a matter of the meaning of the words in the sentence.
5. A description of a language that expresses syntactic relationships by means of inflections rather than word order or prepositions and other function words.
6. Etymology: via French or modern Latin from Greek sunthetikos, "component", from sunthetos, "combined".
synthetism
synthorax
syntonic
Of or relating to two oscillating circuits having the same resonant frequency.
syntonis
syntopie
syntopy
syntripsis
1. The comminution or crushing of a bone.
2. Comminuted fracture (one in which the bone is splintered or crushed).
syntrophism
State of mutual dependence, with reference to food supply, of organs or cells of a plant or an animal.
syntrophoblast
syntrophus
syntropic
syntropy
synulosis

Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer-; tauto-.


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