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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Συήνη (Suḗnē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Syēnē f sg (genitive Syēnēs); first declension
- Aswan (a city in southern Egypt)
- (poetic, metonymically) syenite (the red hornblende granite of Syene, for which it was famous)
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “SYE´NE”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “Sy̆ēnē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sy̆ēnē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,532.
- “Syēnē” on page 1,895/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)