Σειρήν
Ancient GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /seː.rɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈren/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
Proper nounEdit
Σειρήν • (Seirḗn) f (genitive Σειρῆνος); third declension
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 |
Σειρήνοιν Seirḗnoin |
ταῖς Σειρῆσῐ / Σειρῆσῐν taîs Seirêsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Σειρῆνᾰ tḕn Seirêna |
Σειρῆνε Seirêne |
τᾱ̀ς Σειρῆνᾰς tā̀s Seirênas | ||||||||||
Vocative | Σειρήν Seirḗn |
Σειρῆνε Seirêne |
Σειρῆνες Seirênes | ||||||||||
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Derived termsEdit
- Σειρήνειος (Seirḗneios)
- Σειρηνίς (Seirēnís)
DescendantsEdit
- Danish: Sirene
- Dutch: Sirene
- English: Siren
- Finnish: seireeni
- French: Sirène
- German: Sirene
- 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
- Spanish: Sirena
- Swedish: Siren
- Thai: ไซเรน (sai-ren)
- Ukrainian: Сирен (Syren)
ReferencesEdit
- 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