Σειρήν
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps originally "entangler" or "binder," from σειρά (seirá, “rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to grab, seize, enclose”). On the other hand, Chantraine is in favor of a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -ήν. Compare also Σείριος (Seírios).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /seː.rɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈre̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- Hyphenation: Σει‧ρήν
Proper noun
Σειρήν • (Seirḗn) f (genitive Σειρῆνος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Σειρήν hē Seirḗn |
τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne |
αἱ Σειρῆνες hai Seirênes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Σειρῆνος tês Seirênos |
τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin |
τῶν Σειρήνων tôn Seirḗnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Σειρῆνῐ têi Seirênĭ |
τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin |
ταῖς Σειρῆσῐ / Σειρῆσῐν taîs Seirêsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Σειρῆνᾰ tḕn Seirênă |
τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne |
τᾱ̀ς Σειρῆνᾰς tā̀s Seirênăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Σειρήν Seirḗn |
Σειρῆνε Seirêne |
Σειρῆνες Seirênes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Σειρήνειος (Seirḗneios)
- Σειρηνίς (Seirēnís)
Descendants
- → Finnish: seireeni
- Greek: Σειρήν (Seirín), σειρήνα (seirína)
- → Hebrew: סירנה
- → Indonesian: Siren
- → Italian: Sirena
- → Japanese: セイレーン
- → Korean: 세이렌 (seiren)
- → Latin: Sīrēn
- → Lithuanian: Sirena
- → Norwegian: Sirene
- → Polish: Syrena
- → Romanian: Sirenă
- → Russian: Сирен (Siren)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Сирена
- → Slovene: Sirena
- → Ukrainian: Сирен (Syren)
References
- “Σειρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Σειρήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN