Syrinx

Borrowed from Latin Sȳrinx, from Ancient Greek Σῦρῐγξ (Sûrĭnx).

Syrinx

1. (Greek mythology) An Arcadian nymph, changed into a reed

• Sȳringa (Medieval Latin)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σῦρῐγξ (Sûrĭnx).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsyː.rɪŋks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.riŋks]
• Homophone: sȳrinx

Sȳrinx f sg (genitive Sȳringis or Sȳringos); third declension

1. Syrinx (an Arcadian nymph, changed into a reed)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.704–706:

     Ut sē mūtārent liquidās ōrasse sorōrēs,
     Pānaque cum prēnsam sibi iam Sȳringa putāret
     corpore prō nymphae calamōs tenuisse palūstrēs.

     She prayed for transformation to her fluvial sisters
     and just as Pan thought that he had captured Syrinx
     instead of the nymph's body he held but swampy reeds.

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

• → English: Syrinx
• Middle French: Syringe
  • French: Syringe

• “Sȳrinx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “2 Sȳrinx”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,535/1”
• “Sȳrinx” on page 1,896/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)