Symaeus

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek Σῡμαῖος (Sūmaîos)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syːˈmae̯.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈmɛː.us]

Adjective

Sȳmaeus (feminine Sȳmaea, neuter Sȳmaeum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Symaean (of, belonging to, or pertaining to Syme)
   • 1857, Arminius Koechly Turicensis, De Iliadis carminibus dissertatio III. [Third dissertation on the poetry of the Iliad], Zürich: ex officina Zürcheri et Furreri, page 24:

     Nec contradixit, qui de altera dissertatione judicium tulit in Jahni annall. 1856. p. 415–421,  D u e n t z e r u s, imo hic quidem me adeo audacior plures etiam versus ejecit: 489–493. 518. 522 sq. 525 sq. 539. 541–544. 562. 564–567 (scripto 568 τῷ δ’ ἄρ’ ἅμ’ pro τοῖσι δ’ ἅμ’). 594–600. 604 (sed servato 607, quem ego rejeceram); tum  t o t u m  locum de Aetolis, Cretensibus, Rhodiis, Symaeis ceterisque insulanis 638–680; postremo 721–737 et 752. 756–759, ut tantum viginti octo (non septem!) strophae remaneant.

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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	Sȳmaeus	Sȳmaea	Sȳmaeum		Sȳmaeī	Sȳmaeae	Sȳmaea
genitive	Sȳmaeī	Sȳmaeae	Sȳmaeī		Sȳmaeōrum	Sȳmaeārum	Sȳmaeōrum
dative	Sȳmaeō	Sȳmaeae	Sȳmaeō		Sȳmaeīs
accusative	Sȳmaeum	Sȳmaeam	Sȳmaeum		Sȳmaeōs	Sȳmaeās	Sȳmaea
ablative	Sȳmaeō	Sȳmaeā	Sȳmaeō		Sȳmaeīs
vocative	Sȳmaee	Sȳmaea	Sȳmaeum		Sȳmaeī	Sȳmaeae	Sȳmaea

Noun

Sȳmaeus m (genitive Sȳmaeī); second declension

1. a Symaean (a native or inhabitant of Syme)
   • 2006, Antonio Ramirez de Verger, “Index Nominum [Index of Names]”, in Publius Ovidius Naso: Carmina Amatoria [Ovid: Songs of Love] (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana), second edition, Munich/Leipzig: in aedibus K. G. Saur, →ISBN, page 367:

     Nireus Achiuorum pulcherrimus, Symaeorum dux AA. 2,109

     Nireus the most handsome of the Achaeans, the leader of the Symaeans AA.2.109

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Sȳmaeus	Sȳmaeī
genitive	Sȳmaeī	Sȳmaeōrum
dative	Sȳmaeō	Sȳmaeīs
accusative	Sȳmaeum	Sȳmaeōs
ablative	Sȳmaeō	Sȳmaeīs
vocative	Sȳmaee	Sȳmaeī

Related terms

• Sȳmē

Descendants

• → English: Symaean
• French: Syméen, syméen