Συρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Σῠρῐ́η (Suríē) – Ionic

Etymology

From Σῠ́ρος (Súros) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

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. Syria

Inflection

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

Terms derived from Συρία (Suría)

• σῠρῐ́ᾱ (suríā)
• Σῠρῐᾰκός (Suriakós)

• Σῠρῐᾰ́ρχης (Suriárkhēs)
• Σῠρῐᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (Suriarkhíā)

• Σῠ́ρῐος (Súrios)
• Σῠρῐστῐ́ (Suristí)

Descendants

• → Arabic: سوريا‎ (Sūriyā), سورية‎ (Sūriyyä)
• → Coptic: ⲥⲩⲣⲓⲁ (suria)
• 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

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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Greek

Proper noun

Συρία • (Syría) f

1. Syria