Syme

See also: Symè

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Sȳmē.

Alternative forms

• Symi, Simi (under Modern Greek influence)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪmiː/, /ˈsiːmi/

Proper noun

Syme

1. An island in the Dodecanese, Greece
   • 1903, Arthur Stoddard Cooley, “The Bronze Hermes from Antikythera”, in Records of the Past, volume 2, pages 207–208:

     About the end of 1900 Symæan divers fishing from the sponge-fishing boat ‘Photios Lentiakós,’ under Captain Demetrios E. Kontos, pulled up the well-preserved hand of a bronze statue off the north coast of Antikythera, the ancient Aigile (Cerigotto), near the place called to-day Pinakakia, about an hour distant from the river (whose mouth is) the principal mooring ground of the island. At this discovery the captain of the boat dived himself, and seeing in the place where the hand was found a heap of various ancient statues, he stopped fishing for sponges and got under way for Syme (an island off the coast of Asia Minor, 15 miles N. W. of Rhodes), whence after consultation with other patriotic Symæans he came to Athens and communicated the find to the Greek Government, begging at the same time for official permission to go forward at his own expense to bring up the statues.

2. A municipality of Rhodes, Greece

Related terms

• Symaean

Translations

island in the Dodecanese archipelago

• French: Symè f
• Greek: Σύμη (el) f (Sými)

  Ancient Greek: Σῡ́μη f (Sū́mē)

• Italian: Simi f
• Latin: Sȳmē f
• Turkish: Sömbeki

municipality of the Rhodes regional unit

• Greek: Σύμη (el) f (Sými)

Further reading

• Symi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sim, the short form of Simon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪm/

Proper noun

Syme (plural Symes)

1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Syme is the 25659^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 961 individuals. Syme is most common among White (95.11%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Seym, emys, semy, yems, yes'm

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek Σῡ́μη (Sū́mē)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː.meː/, [ˈs̠yːmeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me/, [ˈsiːme]

Proper noun

Sȳmē f sg (genitive Sȳmēs); first declension

1. Syme (an island in the Dodecanese, Greece)
   • c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 2.7.11:

     at interius Melos, Olearos, Aegilia, Cothon, Ius, Thia, Thera, Gyaros, Hippuris, Donysa, Cythnos, Chalcis, Icaria, Cinara, Nisyros, Lebinthos, Calymnia, Syme. hae quia dispersae sunt Sporades, at Ceos, Sicinos, Siphnos, Seriphos, Rhenea, Paros, Myconos, Syros, Tenos, Naxos, Delos, Andros quia in orbem iacent Cyclades dictae.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.133:

     Rhodiorum insulae Carpathus, quae mari nomen dedit, Casos, Hagne, Eulimna, Nisyros, distans a Cnido XV:D, Porphyris antea dicta, et eodem tractu media inter Rhodum Cnidumque Syme; cingitur XXXVII:D, portus benigne praebet VIII. praeter eas circa Rhodum Cyclopis, Teganon, Corydlusa, Diabatae IIII, Hymos, Chalce eum oppido, Teutlusa, Narthecusa, Dimastos, Progne et a Cnido Cisserusa, Therionarcia, Calydne cum tribus oppidis, Notio, Nisyro, Mendetero, et in Arconneso oppidum Ceramus. in Cariae ora quae vocantur Argiae numero XX et Hyetusa, Lepsia, Leros.

Declension

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

	singular
nominative	Sȳmē
genitive	Sȳmēs
dative	Sȳmae
accusative	Sȳmēn
ablative	Sȳmē
vocative	Sȳmē
locative	Sȳmae

Related terms

• Sȳmaeus

Descendants

• → English: Syme

Further reading

• Sy̆mē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1532/3.