Σῖρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly a hydronym extended from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to drip, moisten”), which would be related to ἰκμάς (ikmás, “moisture”). Folk etymology connected the name to a daughter of Morges (king and founder of the Morgetes).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sîː.ris/ → /ˈsi.ris/ → /ˈsi.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sîː.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ris/

Proper noun

Σῖρις • (Sîris) f (genitive Σίριος); third declension

1. Siris, a city of Magna Graecia

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σῖρῐς; τῆς Σῑ́ρῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῖρῐς hē Sîrĭs
Genitive	τῆς Σῑ́ρῐος tês Sī́rĭos
Dative	τῇ Σῑ́ρῑ têi Sī́rī
Accusative	τὴν Σῖρῐν tḕn Sîrĭn
Vocative	Σῖρῐ Sîrĭ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: Sīris

References

• Σῖρις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• De Juliis: De Juliis, E.M., Magna Grecia, Edipuglia, Bari, 1996.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Strabo l. c.; Athenae. xii. p. 523.