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Latin
Etymology
From Syria.
Pronunciation
Adjective
syrus (feminine syra, neuter syrum); first/second-declension adjective
- Syrian
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “syrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- syrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- syrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “syrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “syrus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray