Συρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σῠρῐ́η (Suríē) — Ionic

Etymology

From Σῠ́ρος (Súros) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā). Ultimately from Akkadian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sy.rí.aː/ → /syˈri.a/ → /siˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sy.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈri.a/

Proper noun

Σῠρῐ́ᾱ • (Suríā) f (genitive Σῠρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

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

Declension

First declension of ἡ Σῠρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Σῠρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῠρῐ́ᾱ hē Suríā
Genitive	τῆς Σῠρῐ́ᾱς tês Suríās
Dative	τῇ Σῠρῐ́ᾳ têi Suríāi
Accusative	τὴν Σῠρῐ́ᾱν tḕn Suríān
Vocative	Σῠρῐ́ᾱ Suríā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῠρῐ́ᾱ (suríā)
• Σῠρῐᾰκός (Suriakós)
• Σῠρῐᾰ́ρχης (Suriárkhēs)
• Σῠρῐᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (Suriarkhíā)
• Σῠ́ρῐος (Súrios)
• Σῠρῐστῐ́ (Suristí)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: سُورِيَا (sūriyā), سُورِيَة (sūriya)
• → Coptic: ⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ (suria)
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌰 (swria)
• Greek: Συρία (Syría)
• → Hebrew: סוריה (Surya)
• → Latin: Syria
  • Asturian: Siria
  • Catalan: Síria
  • French: Syrie
  • → Irish: An tSiria
  • Italian: Siria
  • Portuguese: Síria
  • Spanish: Siria
• → Turkish: Suriye

Further reading

• “Συρία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4947 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Συρία (Suría, “Syria”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈɾi.a/

Proper noun

Συρία • (Syría) f

1. Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Declension

  Συρία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Συρία •
genitive	Συρίας •
accusative	Συρία •
vocative	Συρία •

Further reading

• Συρία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el