syrus

See also: Syrus and Sýrus

Latin

Etymology

From Syria.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsy.rus/, [ˈs̠ʏrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.rus/, [ˈsiːrus]

Adjective

syrus (feminine syra, neuter syrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Syrian

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	syrus	syra	syrum		syrī	syrae	syra
Genitive	syrī	syrae	syrī		syrōrum	syrārum	syrōrum
Dative	syrō		syrō		syrīs
Accusative	syrum	syram	syrum		syrōs	syrās	syra
Ablative	syrō	syrā	syrō		syrīs
Vocative	syre	syra	syrum		syrī	syrae	syra

Related terms

• Syria

References

• “syrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• syrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• syrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “syrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “syrus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray