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Σύρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σύρα

Structure: Συρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of Su/ras

Sense

  1. a Syrian woman

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Σύρα Σύρᾱ Σύραι
Genitive Σύρᾱς Σύραιν Συρῶν
Dative Σύρᾱͅ Σύραιν Σύραις
Accusative Σύρᾱν Σύρᾱ Σύρᾱς
Vocative Σύρᾱ Σύρᾱ Σύραι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ΚΑΙ ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν ἦν φιλογύνησ. καὶ ἦσαν αὐτῷ γυναῖκεσ ἄρχουσαι ἑπτακόσιαι καὶ παλλακαὶ τριακόσιαι. καὶ ἔλαβε γυναῖκασ ἀλλοτρίασ καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα Φαραώ, Μωαβίτιδασ, Ἀμμανίτιδασ, Σύρασ καὶ Ἰδουμαίασ, Χετταίασ καὶ Ἀμορραίασ, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 11:1)
  • Τὸν γοῦν Ἀλέξανδρον σύρασ μέχρι Ῥώμησ ὁ πατὴρ τῆσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ φαρμακείασ ἔκρινεν ἐπὶ Καίσαροσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 645:1)
  • ὁ δὲ σύρασ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ εἰσ Τύρον κἀκεῖθεν διαπλεύσασ εἰσ Καισάρειαν τρόπον ἀναιρέσεωσ τοῖσ μειρακίοισ ἐσκέπτετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 764:3)
  • ὁ δὲ σύρασ αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὸ μυχαίτατον τῆσ οἰκίασ καὶ τὴν αὔλειον ἀποκλείσασ ἐμαστίγωσεν, μέχρι πάντων τὰ σπλάγχνα γυμνῶσαι· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 769:2)

Synonyms

  1. a Syrian woman

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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