Sirie

See also: Sirië

Middle English

Proper noun

Sirie

1. (historical) Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria)
2. (historical, historical) Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:24, page 1v, column 1, lines 18–23; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     and hıs fame .· wente in to al ſirie / ⁊ þei bꝛouȝten to hĩ alle þat weren at male eeſe · ⁊ þat weren take wiþ dyīiſe langoꝛes ⁊ turmentis / and hem þat haddẽ fendis · ⁊ lunatik men · ⁊ men in þe paleſie .· ⁊ he heelide hem /

     And his fame went into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were at mal-ease, and that were taken with diverse languors and torments, and them that had fiends, and lunatic men, and men in palsy, and he healed them.[2]

Descendants

• English: Syria

Old French

Alternative forms

• Surie

Proper noun

Sirie f (nominative singular Sirie)

1. (historical) Syria (an ancient region in the Levant in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern country of Syria)
2. (historical, historical) Syria (an ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE)