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Synoecism vs Synecism - What's the difference?

synoecism | synecism |

As nouns the difference between synoecism and synecism

is that synoecism is the unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis while synecism is an alternative spelling of synoecism.

synoecism

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.
  • * 1886 , English History Review , 1886, I, pg 636.
    • They always remained separate states and were never synoikised .
  • * 1887 , Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual & Religion , I, pg 266.
    • Legends...current before the villages were synoecised into Athens.
  • * (rfdate) Encyclopædia Britannica , Vol. XXX. 529/2.
    • When the town was first formed...by the synœcism of the neighboring villages.

    synecism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare)