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单词 Σύρτις
释义

Σύρτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Attested by Herodotus (2.32). Perhaps from συρτός (surtós, swept, washed down), from the verb σύρω (súrō, draw, drag, trail along), after the effect of the wind and the waves on the quicksands in these gulfs.

The metaphorical meaning "destruction" is due to the proverbial difficulty of navigating these gulfs due to shoreward drag.

Pronunciation

 
  • (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýr.tis/
  • (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.tis/
  • (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.tis/
  • (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.tis/
  • (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsir.tis/

Proper noun

Σῠ́ρτῐς (Súrtis) f (genitive Σῠ́ρτεως or Σῠ́ρτῐος); third declension

  1. the Syrtis, name of two large shallow gulfs on the coast of Libya
    • Συνεχὴς δ’ἐστὶν ἡ μικρὰ σύρτις, ἣν καὶ Λωτοφαγῖτιν σύρτιν λέγουσιν. (Strabo, Geographica, 17.3)

Declension

Noun

Σῠ́ρτῐς (Súrtis) f (genitive Σῠ́ρτεως or Σῠ́ρτῐος); third declension

  1. destruction, ruin
    • ἄλλα δ’ ἄλλαν θραῦεν σύρτις (Timotheus Fragmenta, ed. D.L. Page, Poetae melici Graeci, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962, 1967, 400‑418; fragment 15, line 88)

Declension

Descendants

  • Syrtis
  • Sirte
  • سرت

References

  • Σύρτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • G4950 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
  • Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  • John Lemprière, A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors; with the value of coins, weights and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans; and a chronological table (1827), p. 790.
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