σύρμα
Ancient Greek
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýr.ma/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ma/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsir.ma/
 
Noun
    
σύρμᾰ • (súrma) n (genitive σύρμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò súrma  | 
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ súrmate  | 
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tà súrmata  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῠ́ρμᾰτος toû súrmatos  | 
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn surmátoin  | 
τῶν σῠρμᾰ́των tôn surmátōn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῠ́ρμᾰτῐ tôi súrmati  | 
τοῖν σῠρμᾰ́τοιν toîn surmátoin  | 
τοῖς σῠ́ρμᾰσῐ / σῠ́ρμᾰσῐν toîs súrmasi(n)  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σῠ́ρμᾰ tò súrma  | 
τὼ σῠ́ρμᾰτε tṑ súrmate  | 
τᾰ̀ σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ tà súrmata  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠ́ρμᾰ súrma  | 
σῠ́ρμᾰτε súrmate  | 
σῠ́ρμᾰτᾰ súrmata  | ||||||||||
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Descendants
    
Further reading
    
- “σύρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - σύρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 
Greek
    
    Etymology
    
Inherited from Byzantine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “gold or silver thread”), from Koine Greek σύρμα (súrma, “theatric robe with a long train”), from Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma, “anything trailed or dragged”).[1] From σύρω (súrō, “drag”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈsiɾ.ma/
 - Hyphenation: σύρ‧μα
 
Noun
    
σύρμα • (sýrma) n (plural σύρματα)
- electrical wire or cable
 - wire (thin flexible metal thread or threads)
 - scourer, metal mesh scouring pad
 - whisk, beater
 - wire netting
 
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
- αγκαθωτό σύρμα n (agkathotó sýrma, “barbed wire”)
 
Related terms
    
- ασυρματιστής m (asyrmatistís), ασυρματίστρια f (asyrmatístria)
 - ασύρματος (asýrmatos, “wireless”, adjective or masculine noun)
 - ατσαλόσυρμα n (atsalósyrma)
 - ενσύρματος (ensýrmatos)
 - συρματένιος (syrmaténios)
 - συρμάτινος (syrmátinos)
 - συρματόπλεγμα n (syrmatóplegma, “wire netting”)
 - συρματοποιώ (syrmatopoió)
 - συρματόσκοινο n (syrmatóskoino, “cable, wire rope”), συρματόσχοινο n (syrmatóschoino)
 - συρμάτωση f (syrmátosi) and see: σύρω (sýro, “drag”)
 
References
    
- σύρμα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
 
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