σύρμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σύρω (súrō, “to draw, drag, trail”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýr.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsir.ma/
Noun
σύρμᾰ • (súrmă) n (genitive σύρμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò sŭ́rmă |
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ sŭ́rmăte |
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tằ sŭ́rmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῠ́ρμᾰτος toû sŭ́rmătos |
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn sŭrmắtoin |
τῶν σῠρμᾰ́των tôn sŭrmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῠ́ρμᾰτῐ tōî sŭ́rmătĭ |
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn sŭrmắtoin |
τοῖς σῠ́ρμᾰσῐ / σῠ́ρμᾰσῐν toîs sŭ́rmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò sŭ́rmă |
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ sŭ́rmăte |
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tằ sŭ́rmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠ́ρμᾰ sŭ́rmă |
σῠ́ρμᾰτε sŭ́rmăte |
σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ sŭ́rmătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- > Byzantine Greek: σύρμα (súrma) (inherited)
- > Greek: σύρμα (sýrma) (inherited)
- → Ottoman Turkish: صرمه, صیرمه (sırma), սըրմա (sırma) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: sırma
- → Albanian: sërmë, sërme
- → Armenian: սրմա (srma), սիրմա (sirma), սռմա (sṙma), սուրմա (surma), սրմայ (srmay), սիրմայ (sirmay), սռմայ (sṙmay), սուրմայ (surmay) — traditional orthography
- → Bulgarian: съ́рма (sǎ́rma)
- → Georgian: სირმა (sirma)
- → Macedonian: ср́ма (sŕma)
- → Romanian: sîrmă, sârmă
- → Serbo-Croatian: sŕma / ср́ма
- → Latin: syrma
Further reading
- “σύρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Byzantine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “gold or silver thread”), from Koine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “theatric robe with a long train”), from Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma, “anything trailed or dragged”).[1] From σύρω (súrō, “drag”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsiɾ.ma/
- Hyphenation: σύρ‧μα
Noun
σύρμα • (sýrma) n (plural σύρματα)
- electrical wire or cable
- wire (thin flexible metal thread or threads)
- scourer, metal mesh scouring pad
- whisk, beater
- wire netting
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
| genitive | σύρματος (sýrmatos) | συρμάτων (syrmáton) |
| accusative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
| vocative | σύρμα (sýrma) | σύρματα (sýrmata) |
Derived terms
- αγκαθωτό σύρμα n (agkathotó sýrma, “barbed wire”)
Related terms
- ασυρματιστής m (asyrmatistís), ασυρματίστρια f (asyrmatístria)
- ασύρματος (asýrmatos, “wireless”, adjective or masculine noun)
- ατσαλόσυρμα n (atsalósyrma)
- ενσύρματος (ensýrmatos)
- συρματένιος (syrmaténios)
- συρμάτινος (syrmátinos)
- συρματόπλεγμα n (syrmatóplegma, “wire netting”)
- συρματοποιώ (syrmatopoió)
- συρματόσκοινο n (syrmatóskoino, “cable, wire rope”), συρματόσχοινο n (syrmatóschoino)
- συρμάτωση f (syrmátosi)
- and see: σύρω (sýro, “drag”)
References
- ^ σύρμα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language