Palmyrena

English

Alternative forms

• Palmyrene

Etymology

From Latin Palmȳrēna, from Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνή (Palmurēnḗ).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Proper noun

Palmyrena

1. A historical region and country of the Syrian steppe, of which Palmyra was the capital.
   • 1695, Simon Patrick, A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis:

     [...] Taking his Journey through the dangerous and barren Desarts of Palmyrena ; [...]

   • 1698, An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World:

     [...] and then visited all the Borders of his Dominions; from Palmyrena in the North [...]

   • 1927, Geographical Review, volume 17, page 192:

     Southward from Palmyrena stretches a vast expanse of desert, the true home of the nomad from the earliest times, a land that has never been suited to cultivation.

   • 1928, Oriental Explorations and Studies, number 4, page 238:

     By studying the Antonine Itinerary we get a fairly good idea of the northern and western borders of Palmyrena, [...]

   • 1995, Klaas Dijkstra, Life and Loyalty:

     One originates from Khirbet Abu Duhur in the north-western Palmyrena.

   • 2000, Norman Lewis, “The Syrian steppe during the last century of Ottoman rule: Hawran and the Palmyrena”, in The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East‎^[1], page 33:

     Trans-Jordan, the Palmyrena and the Euphrates valley were brought within the administered area ; [...]

   • 2003, Christina Phelps Harris, The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration, page 39:

     The most frequently used part of the Syrian Desert is Palmyrena.

Derived terms

• Palmyrenian

Translations

ancient country of which Palmyra was the capital

• French: Palmyrène (fr) f
• German: Palmyrene f
• Greek: Παλμυρηνή (Palmyriní)

  Ancient: Παλμυρηνή f (Palmurēnḗ)

• Italian: Palmirene f
• Latin: Palmȳrēna f
• Russian: Пальмирена f (Palʹmirena)

Latin

Alternative forms

• Palmȳrēnē

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνή (Palmurēnḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pal.myːˈreː.na/, [päɫ̪myːˈreːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal.miˈre.na/, [pälmiˈrɛːnä]

Proper noun

Palmȳrēna f sg (genitive Palmȳrēnae); first declension

1. Palmyrena

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Palmȳrēna
genitive	Palmȳrēnae
dative	Palmȳrēnae
accusative	Palmȳrēnam
ablative	Palmȳrēnā
vocative	Palmȳrēna
locative	Palmȳrēnae

References

• “Palmȳra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press