syricus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Συρικός (Surikós). By surface analysis, Syrus +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• Older: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠ʊrɪkʊs̠]
• Newer: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠ɪrɪkʊs̠]
• Hellenizing: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠ʏrɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ri.kus/, [ˈsiːrikus]

Adjective

syricus (feminine syrica, neuter syricum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Syrian

   Synonym: syrus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	syricus	syrica	syricum		syricī	syricae	syrica
Genitive	syricī	syricae	syricī		syricōrum	syricārum	syricōrum
Dative	syricō		syricō		syricīs
Accusative	syricum	syricam	syricum		syricōs	syricās	syrica
Ablative	syricō	syricā	syricō		syricīs
Vocative	syrice	syrica	syricum		syricī	syricae	syrica

Descendants

• Italian: sorgo
  • → English: sorghum, sorgho, sorgo
  • → French: sorgho
  • → Galician: sorgo
  • → Translingual: Sorghum
  • → Portuguese: sorgo
  • → Spanish: sorgo
• → Slovene: sirk

Further reading

• “syricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• syricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.