Palmyrena

• Palmyrene

From Latin Palmȳrēna, from Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνή (Palmurēnḗ).

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Palmyrena

2. A historical region of Syria. Capital: Palmyra.^[1]
   • 1614, Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World‎^[1], page 419:

     Beſides this, all Judæa and Iſrael were now maſtered to his hands; all the Arabians his borderers, the Syrians of Zobah, of Damaſcena, of Palmyrena, of Ituræa; all of Idumæa, Moab, and Ammon, paid him tribute; as likewiſe did the Hittites, who with the Perizzites, Hevites, Jebuſites, and other races of the Canaanites, were not as yet extinguiſhed, though ſubjected.

   • 1695, Simon Patrick, A Commentary Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis:

     [...] Taking his Journey through the dangerous and barren Desarts of Palmyrena ; [...]

   • 1698, An Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World:

     [...] and then visited all the Borders of his Dominions; from Palmyrena in the North [...]

   • 1927, Geographical Review, volume 17, page 192:

     Southward from Palmyrena stretches a vast expanse of desert, the true home of the nomad from the earliest times, a land that has never been suited to cultivation.

   • 1928, Oriental Explorations and Studies, number 4, page 238:

     By studying the Antonine Itinerary we get a fairly good idea of the northern and western borders of Palmyrena, [...]

   • 1995, Klaas Dijkstra, Life and Loyalty:

     One originates from Khirbet Abu Duhur in the north-western Palmyrena.

   • 2000, Norman Lewis, “The Syrian steppe during the last century of Ottoman rule: Hawran and the Palmyrena”, in The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East‎^[2], page 33:

     Trans-Jordan, the Palmyrena and the Euphrates valley were brought within the administered area ; [...]

   • 2003, Christina Phelps Harris, The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration, page 39:

     The most frequently used part of the Syrian Desert is Palmyrena.

• Palmȳrēnē

From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνή (Palmurēnḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paɫ.myːˈreː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pal.miˈrɛː.na]

Palmȳrēna f sg (genitive Palmȳrēnae); first declension

1. Palmyrena (a historical region of Syria)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → English: Palmyrena
• French: Palmyrène
• Italian: Palmirena

• “Palmȳra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press