s 1 y 4 n 1 d 2 e 1 s 1 i 1 s 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originInitially in cytology from German Syndesis, coined by Valentin Häcker in 1904 from Ancient Greek σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding, joining”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, “-sis: forming nouns”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to syn- + -desis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0