σύρμα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From σύρω (súrō, “to draw, drag, trail”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýr.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsir.ma/
Noun
[edit]σύρμᾰ • (súrma) n (genitive σύρμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò súrma |
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ súrmate |
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tà súrmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῠ́ρμᾰτος toû súrmatos |
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn surmátoin |
τῶν σῠρμᾰ́των tôn surmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῠ́ρμᾰτῐ tôi súrmati |
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn surmátoin |
τοῖς σῠ́ρμᾰσῐ / σῠ́ρμᾰσῐν toîs súrmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò súrma |
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ súrmate |
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tà súrmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῠ́ρμᾰ súrma |
σῠ́ρμᾰτε súrmate |
σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ súrmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- > Byzantine Greek: σύρμα (súrma) (inherited)
- > Greek: σύρμα (sýrma) (inherited)
- → Ottoman Turkish: صرمه, صیرمه (sırma), սըրմա (sırma) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: sırma
- → Albanian: sërmë, sërme
- → Armenian: սրմա (srma), սիրմա (sirma), սռմա (sṙma), սուրմա (surma), սրմայ (srmay), սիրմայ (sirmay), սռմայ (sṙmay), սուրմայ (surmay) — traditional orthography
- → Bulgarian: съ́рма (sǎ́rma)
- → Georgian: სირმა (sirma)
- → Macedonian: ср́ма (sŕma)
- → Romanian: sîrmă, sârmă
- → Serbo-Croatian: sŕma / ср́ма
- → Latin: syrma
Further reading
[edit]- “σύρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Byzantine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “gold or silver thread”), from Koine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “theatric robe with a long train”), from Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma, “anything trailed or dragged”).[1] From σύρω (súrō, “drag”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]σύρμα • (sýrma) n (plural σύρματα)
- electrical wire or cable
- wire (thin flexible metal thread or threads)
- scourer, metal mesh scouring pad
- whisk, beater
- wire netting
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
genitive | σύρματος (sýrmatos) | συρμάτων (syrmáton) |
accusative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
vocative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
Derived terms
[edit]- αγκαθωτό σύρμα n (agkathotó sýrma, “barbed wire”)
Related terms
[edit]- ασυρματιστής m (asyrmatistís), ασυρματίστρια f (asyrmatístria)
- ασύρματος (asýrmatos, “wireless”, adjective or masculine noun)
- ατσαλόσυρμα n (atsalósyrma)
- ενσύρματος (ensýrmatos)
- συρματένιος (syrmaténios)
- συρμάτινος (syrmátinos)
- συρματόπλεγμα n (syrmatóplegma, “wire netting”)
- συρματοποιώ (syrmatopoió)
- συρματόσκοινο n (syrmatóskoino, “cable, wire rope”), συρματόσχοινο n (syrmatóschoino)
- συρμάτωση f (syrmátosi) and see: σύρω (sýro, “drag”)
References
[edit]- ^ σύρμα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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