σῦρ
See also: συρ-
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Only attested in a grammatical work by Theognostus.
Pronunciation edit
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syr/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sir/
Noun edit
σῦρ • (sûr) n (genitive σῠρός); third declension
- (hapax) load, burden, freight
- Synonym: φορτίον (phortíon)
- 800 CE – 900 CE, Theognostus the Grammarian, Canons or On Orthography 133:
- Εἰς υρ μονοσύλλαβα δύο ἐστίν· σῦρ τὸ φόρτιον, καὶ πῦρ τὸ στοιχεῖον· ἀμφότερα δὲ κλίνεται διὰ τοῦ ρος.
- Eis ur monosúllaba dúo estín; sûr tò phórtion, kaì pûr tò stoikheîon; amphótera dè klínetai dià toû ros.
- There are two monosyllabic words in -υρ: "σῦρ" ('burden'), and "πῦρ" ('the element [i.e. fire]'); both of them decline in -ρος.
- Εἰς υρ μονοσύλλαβα δύο ἐστίν· σῦρ τὸ φόρτιον, καὶ πῦρ τὸ στοιχεῖον· ἀμφότερα δὲ κλίνεται διὰ τοῦ ρος.
Inflection edit
Further reading edit
- “σῦρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῦρ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.