syzygie
French
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Latin syzygia, from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /si.zi.ʒi/
- Audio - (file) 
Noun
    
syzygie f (plural syzygies)
- syzygy
- Les marées sont assez fortes dans les mers arctiques, […]. Bien des navigateurs qui les ont observées, […], ont vu la mer, à l'époque des syzygies, monter de vingt à vingt-cinq pieds au-dessus du niveau moyen. (Jules Verne, Le Pays des fourrures, 1873)
 
Further reading
    
- “syzygie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
    
    Etymology
    
Used in Swedish since 1748. Cognate with Danish syzygie, German Syzygie, from Late Latin syzygia and Ancient Greek σύζυγος (súzugos, “yoked together”).
Declension
    
| Declension of syzygie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | syzygie | syzygien | syzygier | syzygierna | 
| Genitive | syzygies | syzygiens | syzygiers | syzygiernas | 
References
    
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