Syracusae

Latin

Etymology

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Pre-Greekbor.?

Phoenician 𐤔𐤄𐤓𐤀𐤇 (šhrʾḥ)bor.?

Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai)bor.

Latin Syracusae

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sy.raːˈkuː.sae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [si.raˈkuː.s̬e]

Proper noun

Syrācūsae f pl (genitive Syrācūsārum); first declension

1. Syracuse (a city and port in Sicily; an ancient Doric city-state in Magna Graecia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Syrācūsae
genitive	Syrācūsārum
dative	Syrācūsīs
accusative	Syrācūsās
ablative	Syrācūsīs
vocative	Syrācūsae
locative	Syrācūsīs

Derived terms

• Syrācūsānus

Related terms

• Syrācūsius

Descendants

• Italian: Siracusa
  • → Armenian: Սիրակուզա (Sirakuza)
  • → Georgian: სირაკუზა (siraḳuza)
  • → Japanese: シラクサ (Shirakusa), シラクーザ (Shirakūza)
• Sicilian: Saragusa, Sarausa (pronunciation spelling), Siragusa, Sirausa (Italianization)
  • → Italian: Siragusa
    • → English: Siragusa
• → Catalan: Siracusa
• → Czech: Syrakusy
• → Finnish: Syrakusa
• → French: Syracuse
  • → English: Syracuse
    • → Italian: Syracuse
    • → Japanese: シラキュース (Shirakyūsu)
    • → Mandarin: 錫拉丘茲 / 锡拉丘兹 (Xīlāqiūzī, Xílāqiūzī)
    • → Portuguese: Syracuse
• → Occitan: Siracusa
• → Polish: Syrakuzy
• → Portuguese: Siracusa
• → Spanish: Siracusa
• → Ukrainian: Сираку́зи (Syrakúzy)

References

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