The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσυνέδριον“sitting together, hence assembly or council”
- Hebrew · borrowed fromסַנְהֶדְרִין“Sanhedrin”
- English todaySanhedrin
Borrowed from Hebrew סַנְהֶדְרִין (sanhedrín, “Sanhedrin”), from Ancient Greek συνέδριον (sunédrion, “sitting together, hence assembly or council”). Doublet of synedrion.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσυνέδριον all →
synedrion
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.