Hyrie

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ὑρίη (Huríē).

Proper noun

Hyriē f sg (genitive Hyriēs); first declension

  1. a lake, and town situated by it, in Bœotia
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.377–381:
      Ille indignātus 'Cupiēs dare' dixit et altō
      desiluit saxō. Cunctī cecidisse putābant:
      factus olor niveīs pendēbat in āere pennīs.
      At genetrix Hyriē, servātī nescia, flendō
      dēlicuit stagnumque suō dē nōmine fēcit.
      Scorned, said 'You'll want to deliver '
      and from a tall rock he threw himself, all sure of his death,
      but in mid-air, made into a swan, by pearly feathers stood.
      His mother Hyrie, however, not knowing him saved,
      weeping wasted away and was turned into a lake.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

singular
nominative Hyriē
genitive Hyriēs
dative Hyriae
accusative Hyriēn
ablative Hyriē
vocative Hyriē

References

  • “Hyrĭē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hyriē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 762/2.

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