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English
Etymology 1
See syringe.
Pronunciation
Noun
syringes
- plural of syringe
Etymology 2
Learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.
Pronunciation
Noun
syringes
- plural of syrinx
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sȳringes f pl (genitive sȳringum); third declension
- caverns or subterranean passages
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only.
References
- “sȳringes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sȳringes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,535/1”
Etymology 2
Regularly declined forms of sȳrinx.
Noun
sȳringes f
- nominative/vocative plural of sȳrinx