Συρία
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Σῠ́ρος (Súros) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā). Ultimately from Akkadian.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sy.rí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /syˈri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /syˈri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syˈri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈri.a/
Proper noun
Σῠρῐ́ᾱ • (Suríā) f (genitive Σῠρῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (historical) Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria)
- (historical) Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE)
Declension
Derived terms
- σῠρῐ́ᾱ (suríā)
- Σῠρῐᾰκός (Suriakós)
- Σῠρῐᾰ́ρχης (Suriárkhēs)
- Σῠρῐᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (Suriarkhíā)
- Σῠ́ρῐος (Súrios)
- Σῠρῐστῐ́ (Suristí)
Descendants
- → Arabic: سُورِيَا (sūriyā), سُورِيَة (sūriya)
- → Coptic: ⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ (suria)
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌰 (swria)
- Greek: Συρία (Syría)
- → Hebrew: סוריה (Surya)
- → Latin: Syria
- → Turkish: Suriye
Further reading
- “Συρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4947 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría, “Syria”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Συρία • (Syría) f
- Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
Declension
Συρία
| case \ number | singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Συρία • |
| genitive | Συρίας • |
| accusative | Συρία • |
| vocative | Συρία • |
Further reading
Συρία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
