Σειρήν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps originally "entangler" or "binder," from σειρά (seirá, “rope, cord”), from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to grab, seize, enclose”). On the other hand, Chantraine is in favor of a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -ήν. Compare also Σείριος (Seírios).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /seː.rɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈre̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈrin/
- Hyphenation: Σει‧ρήν
Proper noun
Σειρήν • (Seirḗn) f (genitive Σειρῆνος); third declension
- (Greek mythology) siren
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σειρήν; τῆς Σειρῆνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Σειρήν hē Seirḗn | τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne | αἱ Σειρῆνες hai Seirênes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Σειρῆνος tês Seirênos | τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin | τῶν Σειρήνων tôn Seirḗnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Σειρῆνῐ têi Seirêni | τοῖν Σειρήνοιν toîn Seirḗnoin | ταῖς Σειρῆσῐ / Σειρῆσῐν taîs Seirêsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Σειρῆνᾰ tḕn Seirêna | τὼ Σειρῆνε tṑ Seirêne | τᾱ̀ς Σειρῆνᾰς tā̀s Seirênas | ||||||||||
Vocative | Σειρήν Seirḗn | Σειρῆνε Seirêne | Σειρῆνες Seirênes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Σειρήνειος (Seirḗneios)
- Σειρηνίς (Seirēnís)
Descendants
- → Danish: Sirene
- → Dutch: Sirene
- → English: Siren
- → Finnish: seireeni
- → French: Sirène
- → German: Sirene
- Greek: Σειρήν (Seirín), Σειρήνα (Seirína)
- → Hebrew: סירנה
- → Indonesian: Siren
- → Italian: Sirena
- → Japanese: セイレーン
- → Korean: 세이렌 (seiren)
- → Latin: Sīrēn
- → Lithuanian: Sirena
- → Norwegian: Sirene
- → Polish: Syrena
- → Romanian: Sirenă
- → Russian: Сирен (Siren)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Сирена
- → Slovene: Sirena
- → Spanish: Sirena
- → Swedish: Siren
- → Thai: ไซเรน (sai-reen)
- → Ukrainian: Сирен (Syren)
References
- “Σειρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Σειρήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- 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