syrma

From Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma), from σύρω (súrō, “to drag”).

syrma (plural syrmas)

1. (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) A long dress that trailed on the floor, worn by tragic actors.

• “syrma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Marys, Mayrs, marys, symar, yarms

From Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsyr.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsir.ma]

syrma n (genitive syrmatis); third declension

1. A robe with a train, worn especially by tragedy actors
2. The tragedy itself

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “syrma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• syrma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.