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Etymology

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Ancient Greek Σῡμαῖος (Sūmaîos)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Sȳmaeus (feminine Sȳmaea, neuter Sȳmaeum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Symaean (of, belonging to, or pertaining to Syme)
    • 1857, Arminius Koechly Turicensis, De Iliadis carminibus dissertatio III. [Third dissertation on the poetry of the Iliad], Zürich: ex officina Zürcheri et Furreri, page 24:
      Nec contradixit, qui de altera dissertatione judicium tulit in Jahni annall. 1856. p. 415–421,  D u e n t z e r u s, imo hic quidem me adeo audacior plures etiam versus ejecit: 489–493. 518. 522 sq. 525 sq. 539. 541–544. 562. 564–567 (scripto 568 τῷ δ’ ἄρ’ ἅμ’ pro τοῖσι δ’ ἅμ’). 594–600. 604 (sed servato 607, quem ego rejeceram); tum  t o t u m  locum de Aetolis, Cretensibus, Rhodiis, Symaeis ceterisque insulanis 638–680; postremo 721–737 et 752. 756–759, ut tantum viginti octo (non septem!) strophae remaneant.
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Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative Sȳmaeus Sȳmaea Sȳmaeum Sȳmaeī Sȳmaeae Sȳmaea
Genitive Sȳmaeī Sȳmaeae Sȳmaeī Sȳmaeōrum Sȳmaeārum Sȳmaeōrum
Dative Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeīs
Accusative Sȳmaeum Sȳmaeam Sȳmaeum Sȳmaeōs Sȳmaeās Sȳmaea
Ablative Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeā Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeīs
Vocative Sȳmaee Sȳmaea Sȳmaeum Sȳmaeī Sȳmaeae Sȳmaea

Noun

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Sȳmaeus m (genitive Sȳmaeī); second declension

  1. a Symaean (a native or inhabitant of Syme)
    • 2006, Antonio Ramirez de Verger, “Index Nominum [Index of Names]”, in Publius Ovidius Naso: Carmina Amatoria [Ovid: Songs of Love] (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), second edition, Munich/Leipzig: in aedibus K. G. Saur, →ISBN, page 367:
      Nireus Achiuorum pulcherrimus, Symaeorum dux AA. 2,109
      Nireus the most handsome of the Achaeans, the leader of the Symaeans AA.2.109

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Sȳmaeus Sȳmaeī
Genitive Sȳmaeī Sȳmaeōrum
Dative Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeīs
Accusative Sȳmaeum Sȳmaeōs
Ablative Sȳmaeō Sȳmaeīs
Vocative Sȳmaee Sȳmaeī
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Descendants

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  • English: Symaean
  • French: Syméen, syméen