Hyrie

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ὑρίη (Huríē).

Proper noun

Hyriē f sg (genitive Hyriēs); first declension

1. a lake, and town situated by it, in Bœotia
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.377–381:

     Ille indignātus 'Cupiēs dare' dixit et altō
     desiluit saxō. Cunctī cecidisse putābant:
     factus olor niveīs pendēbat in āere pennīs.
     At genetrix Hyriē, servātī nescia, flendō
     dēlicuit stagnumque suō dē nōmine fēcit.

     Scorned, [Cycnus] said 'You'll want to deliver [the bull]'
     and from a tall rock he threw himself, all sure of his death,
     but in mid-air, made into a swan, by pearly feathers stood.
     His mother Hyrie, however, not knowing him saved,
     weeping wasted away and was turned into a lake.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Hyriē
genitive	Hyriēs
dative	Hyriae
accusative	Hyriēn
ablative	Hyriē
vocative	Hyriē

Related terms

• Hyrieūs
• Hyriēus

References

• “Hyrĭē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hyriē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 762/2.

Further reading

• Hyria (Boeotia) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia