σῦριγξ

The suffix -ιγγ- implies a Pre-Greek origin because of non-native pronunciation.^[1]

σῦρῐγξ • (sûrinx) f (genitive σῡ́ρῐγγος); third declension

1. pan pipes
2. catcall, whistle, hiss
3. mouthpiece of an αὐλός (aulós, “pipe, flute”)
4. quill of the cassia
5. anything pipe-shaped
   1. spear-case
   2. hole in the nave of a wheel
   3. aperture of a hinge
   4. (medicine, in the plural) bronchial passages
   5. fistulous sore, abscess
   6. groove or barrel of a catapult
   7. subterranean passage, mine
   8. covered gallery, cloister
   9. channel
   10. loop

• (spear-case): δορατοθήκη (doratothḗkē)

• Greek: σύριγγα f (sýringa, “pan pipes”)

  Katharevousa: σύριγξ f (sýrinx, “pan pipes”)

• → Latin: sȳrinx
  • Catalan: xeringa, → siringa
  • French: seringue
    • → English: syringe
  • Italian: siringa
  • Portuguese: siringe, siringa, seringa
  • Spanish: siringe
  • Translingual: Syringa
• → Old Armenian: սրինգ (sring)
• → Sanskrit: सुरङ्ग (suraṅga)
  • → Bengali: সুড়ঙ্গ (śuṛoṅgo) (semi-learned)
• → Translingual: Syringa

• “σῦριγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σῦριγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σῦριγξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • axle idem, page 57.
  • flute idem, page 330.
  • hiss idem, page 401.
  • nave idem, page 552.
  • pipe idem, page 614.
  • reed idem, page 684.