Συρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Σῠρῐ́η (Sŭrĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

From Σῠ́ρος (Sŭ́ros) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā). Ultimately from Akkadian.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.rí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈri.a/

Proper noun

Σῠρῐ́ᾱ • (Sŭrĭ́ā) f (genitive Σῠρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

(historical) Syria (a region in West Asia extending from modern-day southeast Turkey to the north, the Euphrates and Arabian Desert to the east, the Sinai Peninsula to the south, and the Mediterranean sea to the west; Greater Syria)
(historical) Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE)

Declension

First declension of ἡ Σῠρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Σῠρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῠρῐ́ᾱ hē Sŭrĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Σῠρῐ́ᾱς tês Sŭrĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Σῠρῐ́ᾳ tēî Sŭrĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Σῠρῐ́ᾱν tḕn Sŭrĭ́ān
Vocative	Σῠρῐ́ᾱ Sŭrĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

σῠρῐ́ᾱ (sŭrĭ́ā)
Σῠρῐᾰκός (Sŭrĭăkós)
Σῠρῐᾰ́ρχης (Sŭrĭắrkhēs)
Σῠρῐᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (Sŭrĭărkhĭ́ā)
Σῠ́ρῐος (Sŭ́rĭos)
Σῠρῐστῐ́ (Sŭrĭstĭ́)

Descendants

Greek: Συρία (Syría)
→ Arabic: سُورِيَا (sūriyā), سُورِيَة (sūriya)
→ Coptic: ⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ (suria)
→ Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌰 (swria)
→ Hebrew: סוּרְיָה (súrya)
→ Latin: Syria, Suria, Siria
- Asturian: Siria
- Catalan: Síria
- French: Syrie
- → Irish: An tSiria
- Italian: Siria
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: Siria, Syria
  - Fala: Siria
  - Galician: Siria
  - Portuguese: Síria, Syria (pre-standardization spelling)
    - → Hunsrik: Siria
- Romanian: Siria
- Spanish: Siria
→ 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012), Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría, “Syria”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siˈɾi.a/

Proper noun

Συρία • (Syría) f

Syria (a country in West Asia in the Middle East)

Declension

Declension of **Συρία**
	singular
nominative	Συρία (Syría)
genitive	Συρίας (Syrías)
accusative	Συρία (Syría)
vocative	Συρία (Syría)

Further reading

Συρία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el