Σειρήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps originally "entangler" or "binder," from σειρά (seirá, “rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to grab, seize, enclose”). On the other hand, Chantraine is in favor of a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -ήν. Compare also Σείριος (Seírios).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /seː.rɛ̌ːn/ → /siˈrin/ → /siˈrin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /seː.rɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈre̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈrin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈrin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈrin/

• Hyphenation: Σει‧ρήν

Proper noun

Σειρήν • (Seirḗn) f (genitive Σειρῆνος); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) siren

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σειρήν; τῆς Σειρῆνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ Σειρήν hē Seirḗn	τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne	αἱ Σειρῆνες hai Seirênes
Genitive	τῆς Σειρῆνος tês Seirênos	τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin	τῶν Σειρήνων tôn Seirḗnōn
Dative	τῇ Σειρῆνῐ têi Seirêni	τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin	ταῖς Σειρῆσῐ / Σειρῆσῐν taîs Seirêsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν Σειρῆνᾰ tḕn Seirêna	τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne	τᾱ̀ς Σειρῆνᾰς tā̀s Seirênas
Vocative	Σειρήν Seirḗn	Σειρῆνε Seirêne	Σειρῆνες Seirênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σειρήνειος (Seirḗneios)
• Σειρηνίς (Seirēnís)

 

Descendants

• → Finnish: seireeni
• Greek: Σειρήν (Seirín), σειρήνα (seirína)
• → Hebrew: סירנה
• → Indonesian: Siren
• → Italian: Sirena
• → Japanese: セイレーン
• → Korean: 세이렌 (seiren)
• → Latin: Sīrēn
• → Lithuanian: Sirena
• → Norwegian: Sirene
• → Polish: Syrena
• → Romanian: Sirenă
• → Russian: Сирен (Siren)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Сирена
• → Slovene: Sirena
• → Ukrainian: Сирен (Syren)

References

• “Σειρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Σειρήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN