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συνώνυ^μ-ος , ον,
A.having the same name as, c.gen., “ἡ . . συνώνυμος τῆς ἔνδον οὔσης ἔγχελυς” Antiph.217.1, cf. E. Hel.495; ὁ ς. τῇ πόλει [ποταμός] Plb.9.27.5.
II. in the Logic of Arist. συνώνυμα are things having the same name and the same nature and definition, Cat.1a6, cf. Top.123a28, 148a24, Thphr.HP9.11.5; “ἔστι τις ἀδικία παρὰ τὴν ὅλην ἄλλη ἐν μέρει, συνώνυμος, ὅτι ὁ ὁρισμὸς ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ γένει” Arist.EN1130a33; τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ς. τοῖς εἴδεσι the many particulars which have the same name as the forms, i.e. things denoted by the same univocal or unambiguous word, e.g. man and ox, both called ζῷον in the same sense of ζῷον, opp. ὁμώνυμα (v. ὁμώνυμος IV), Id.Metaph.987b10. Adv. “-μως” Id.Cat.3a34, Plb.3.33.11, Phld. Rh.1.148 S.
2. of pairs of the form 'A: non-A', opp. ἑτερώνυμα (q. v.), Procl. in Prm. p.955 S.
III. in Rhet. τὰ ς. are synonyms, words having different forms but the same sense, as πορεύεσθαι and βαδίζειν, Arist.Rh.1405a1; τὸ ς. τοῦ νέφους, i.e. νεφέλη, A.D.Synt. 199.27.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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