Συρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Σῠρῐ́η (Suríē) – Ionic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(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

Syria

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 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

Syria

Declension

Συρία

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

Further reading

Συρία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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