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Syro-|ˈsɪ-, older ˈsaɪərəʊ| ad. Gr. συρο-, combining form of σύρος a Syrian, used with adjs. or ns. denoting other peoples, countries, languages, etc., signifying ‘Syrian or in a Syrian way’, or ‘Syrian and..’, as Syro-Arabian, Syro-Babylonian, Syro-Chaldaic, Syro-Chaldean, Syro-Egyptian, Syro-Galilean, Syro-Græco-Roman, Syro-Hebraic, Syro-hexaplar, Syro-Hittite, Syro-Macedonian, Syro-Mesopotamian, Syro-Palestinian, Syro-Persian, Syro-Philoxenian, Syro-Roman.
1841J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Man (ed. 3) III. 6 The name of *Syro-Arabians, formed on the same principle as the now generally admitted term of Indo-Europeans, would be a much more suitable expression. Ibid., The Syro-Arabian tribes lost, at an early period, their ascendancy among the civilized nations of the world. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 140 The Syro-Arabian nations, termed by Eichhorn and other German writers Semitic. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Alphabet, A remarkable coincidence between the Syro-Arabian alphabet and the phonetic hieroglyphs. Ibid., The earliest monuments of the Syro-Arabians.
1862tr. Renan's Age & Antiq. Bk. Nabathæan Agric. iii. 90 The traditions of the *Syro-Babylonian school.
1835Q. Rev. Sept. 307 A remarkable *Syro-Chaldaic lectionarium in the Vatican library. 1836N. Wiseman Lect. Doctr. Cath. Ch. II. xiv. 152 In Syro-Chaldaic there is no expression for to accuse or calumniate. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Zinanion, The Gospel of Matthew was (as some think) first written in Syro-Chaldaic.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 631/1 *Syro-Chaldeans... The language of the mass and church⁓office is Syro-Chaldaic.
1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vii. 217 Rites and ceremonies were performed like those of the *Syro-Egyptian church.
1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. 289 *Syro-Galilean..Syro-Hebraic [alphabets]. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 295 The immediate descendants of the Hebrew [language] were the Samaritan, the Chaldaic, the Arabic, the Egyptian, the Ethiopian, and the Syro-Galilean.
1686Ussher's Lett. 41 From the *Syro-Græco-Roman Month, Elul Gorpiæus and September began.
1808*Syro-Hebraic [see Syro-Galilean]. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. ix, Another Syro-Hebraic dynasty.
1863Smith's Dict. Bible III. 1629/2 The *Syro-Hexaplar version [i.e. Syriac version from Hexaplar Greek Text] was made on the principle of following the Greek, word for word.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 176/2 *Syro-Hittite seals. 1962D. Harden Phoenicians xiii. 180 Those cylinder-seals and stamp-seals often termed Syro-Hittite, whose motifs and style are so obviously derived from those of Assyria and Babylonia.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Seleucides, The æra of the Seleucides, or the *Syro-Macedonian æra. 1834Mirror of Time 7 Feb., It corresponds..with the sixth moons, Dystrus, Sebastus, and Dius, of the Syro-Macedonians, Paphians, and Bithynians. 1840De Quincey Essenes iii. Wks. 1890 VII. 161 Under the Syro-Macedonian kings.
1911G. Elliot Smith Anc. Egyptians viii. 143 If Egypt entered into relationship with Sumer by the northern—*Syro-Mesopotamian—route.
1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 364 [Arabic] was divided into several dialects, of which only that of Mekkah has survived, this being the parent of a large number of modern vernaculars, notably Arabian.., Irāqian.., *Syro-Palestinian.., Egyptian [etc.]. 1976Times 31 Jan. 13/2 Israeli intervention?.. The mere threat of it headed off Syro-Palestinian intervention in the Jordanian civil war of 1970.
1907Edin. Rev. Apr. 480 Ornaments which may be described as *Syro-Persian.
1818Horne Introd. Study Bible (1827) 115 The Philoxenian or *Syro-Philoxenian Version derives its name from Philoxenus or Xenayas, Bishop of Hierapolis in Syria, a.d. 488–518.
1686Ussher's Lett. 41 That æra Dhilcarnaim is placed by Albategnius in the beginning of the *Syro-Roman Elul or September. |