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Revision as of 08:09, 30 August 2022
See also: Sýria
English
Etymology
From Middle English Sirie, from Latin Sȳria, from Ancient Greek Σῠρῐ́ᾱ (Suríā), ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”) and hence originally synonymous to Assyria.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Syria
- A country in West Asia. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
- (historical) An Ancient Roman province between 64 BCE and 135 CE.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
country in Western Asia
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See also
- Countries of the world
- (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
- United Arab Republic
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from the Ancient Greek Συρίᾱ (Suríā, “Syria”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsy.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ʏriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ri.a/, [ˈsiːriä]
- Older: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsu.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ʊriä]
- Newer: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ri.a/, [ˈs̠ɪriä]
Proper noun
Syria f sg (genitive Syriae); first declension
- Syria (region in the ancient Near East, loosely corresponding to modern Syria)
- (transferred sense) Assyria
- (New Latin) Syria (modern country)
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Syria |
Genitive | Syriae |
Dative | Syriae |
Accusative | Syriam |
Ablative | Syriā |
Vocative | Syria |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: Siria
- Catalan: Síria
- French: Syrie
- → Irish: An tSiria
- Italian: Siria
- Portuguese: Síria
- Spanish: Siria
Further reading
- “Sȳrĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Syria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- “Syria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “Syria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Syria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Syria
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Syria
Related terms
Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Syria f
Declension
Declension of Syria
Derived terms
adjective
nouns
Further reading
- Syria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Syria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Proper noun
Syria f
Categories:
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə
- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Syria
- en:Countries in Asia
- en:Countries
- English terms with historical senses
- Hakka terms with non-redundant manual script codes
- Min Nan terms with non-redundant manual script codes
- Zazaki terms with non-redundant manual script codes
- English words suffixed with -ia
- en:Exonyms
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 3-syllable words
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- New Latin
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Countries in Asia
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål entries with topic categories using raw markup
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Countries
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɘrja
- Rhymes:Polish/ɘrja/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Syria
- pl:Countries in Asia
- pl:Countries
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese obsolete forms