Σῖρις
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editPossibly a hydronym extended from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to drip, moisten”), which would be related to ἰκμάς (ikmás, “moisture”). Folk etymology connected the name to a daughter of Morges (king and founder of the Morgetes).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sîː.ris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ris/
Proper noun
editΣῖρις • (Sîris) f (genitive Σίριος); third declension
- Siris, a city of Magna Graecia
Inflection
editDescendants
edit- Latin: Sīris
References
edit- Σῖρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- De Juliis: De Juliis, E.M., Magna Grecia, Edipuglia, Bari, 1996.
- 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
- Strabo l. c.; Athenae. xii. p. 523.
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