synopsis

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒpsɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑpsɪs/

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1. (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
2. A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
3. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

• (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary

• synoptic
• synoptical
• synoptically
• synoptist

• bird's-eye view

• “synopsis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “synopsis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsynopsis/, [ˈs̠yno̞ps̠is̠]
• Rhymes: -ynopsis
• Syllabification^(key): sy‧nop‧sis

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1. synopsis

• tiivistelmä

• “synopsis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /si.nɔp.sis/

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1. a general overview or synoptic table of a topic
2. (media) Plot summary of a movie

• “synopsis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek σῠ́νοψῐς (súnopsis, “shared view; estimate”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /syˈnop.sis/, [s̠ʏˈnɔps̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈnop.sis/, [siˈnɔpsis]

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1. list
2. synopsis, overview

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• Catalan: sinopsi
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• Italian: sinossi
• Spanish: sinopsis
• Portuguese: sinopse

• “synopsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synopsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette