Συρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σῠρῐ́η (Sŭrĭ́ē) — Ionic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.rí.aː/ → /syˈri.a/ → /siˈri.a/

• (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

1. (historical) Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria)
2. (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 têi 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

• → Arabic: سُورِيَا (sūriyā), سُورِيَة (sūriya)
• → Coptic: ⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ (suria)
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌰 (swria)
• Greek: Συρία (Syría)
• → Hebrew: סוריה (Surya)
• → 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 (see there for further descendants)
  • 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

1. 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