different between syndicate vs synagogue

English

Etymology

From French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”), from syndic (“syndic; representative; chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“suffix denoting an action or result of an action”), from Medieval Latin *syndicatus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek ???????? (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from ??? (sún, “beside; with”) + ???? (dík?, “judgment; justice”)) + -?tus (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality”).

Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).

Pronunciation

• Noun: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?k?t/
• Verb: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?ke?t/
• Hyphenation: syn?dic?ate

Noun

syndicate (plural syndicates)

1. A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
   1. (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
   2. (mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.
2. The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.

Translations

Verb

syndicate (third-person singular simple present syndicates, present participle syndicating, simple past and past participle syndicated)

1. (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
2. (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
3. (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.

Related terms

• syndicated (adjective)
• syndication
• syndicator

Translations

Further reading

• syndicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• asyndetic, centidays, cystidean

English

Alternative forms

• synagog (much rarer)

Etymology

From Middle English synagoge, from Old French synagoge, from Latin synag?ga, from Ancient Greek ???????? (sunag?g?, “assembly, gathering”), from ?????? (sunág?, “I gather together”), from ???? (sún, “with, together”) + ????? (ág?, “I lead”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?.n?????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?.n?????/

Noun

synagogue (plural synagogues)

1. A place of worship for Jews.
2. A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.

Synonyms

• shul

Coordinate terms

• mosque, church, temple, gurdwara, fire temple, mandir, jinja, House of Worship

Derived terms

• synagogal
• synagogical

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.na.???/

Noun

synagogue f (plural synagogues)

1. synagogue

Further reading

• “synagogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).