Syro- /ˈsɪrəʊ-/
combining form
indicating Syrian and
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Syro-Lebanese
indicating Syriac and
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Syro-Aramaic
Origin
from Greek Suro-, from Suros a SyrianSyro-
combining form
- Syrian; Syrian and ...表示“叙利亚的”; “叙利亚和…的”：
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Syro-Palestinian.
- ■ relating to Syria表示“与叙利亚有关的”。
1841 J. C. Prichard Res. PhysicalHist. Man (ed. 3) III. 6The 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.
1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 140The Syro-Arabian nations, termed by Eichhorn and other German writers Semitic.
1845 Kitto 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.
1862 tr. Renan's Age &Antiq. Bk. NabathæanAgric. iii. 90The traditions of the *Syro-Babylonian school.
1835 Q. Rev. Sept. 307A remarkable *Syro-Chaldaic lectionarium in the Vatican library.
1836 N. Wiseman Lect. Doctr. Cath. Ch. II. xiv. 152In Syro-Chaldaic there is no expression for to accuse or calumniate.
1845 Kitto Cycl. Bibl.Lit. s.v. Zinanion,The Gospel of Matthew was (as some think) first written in Syro-Chaldaic.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 631/1*Syro-Chaldeans... The language of the mass and church⁓office is Syro-Chaldaic.
1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vii. 217Rites and ceremonies were performed like those of the *Syro-Egyptian church.
1808 C. Stower Printer'sGram. 289*Syro-Galilean..Syro-Hebraic . [ alphabets]
1824 J. Johnson Typogr. II. 295The immediate descendants of the Hebrew were the Samaritan, the Chaldaic, the Arabic, the Egyptian, the Ethiopian, and the Syro-Galilean. [ language]
1686 Ussher's Lett. 41From the *Syro-Græco-Roman Month, Elul Gorpiæus and September began.
1808 *Syro-Hebraic . [ see Syro-Galilean]
1865 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. ix,Another Syro-Hebraic dynasty.
1863 Smith's Dict. Bible III. 1629/2The *Syro-Hexaplar version was made on the principle of following the Greek, word for word. [ i.e. Syriac version from Hexaplar Greek Text]
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 176/2*Syro-Hittite seals.
1962 D. Harden Phoenicians xiii. 180Those cylinder-seals and stamp-seals often termed Syro-Hittite, whose motifs and style are so obviously derived from those of Assyria and Babylonia.
1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Seleucides,The æra of the Seleucides, or the *Syro-Macedonian æra.
1834 Mirror of Time 7 Feb., It corresponds..with the sixth moons, Dystrus, Sebastus, and Dius, of the Syro-Macedonians, Paphians, and Bithynians.
1840 De Quincey Essenes iii.Wks. 1890 VII. 161Under the Syro-Macedonian kings.
1911 G. Elliot Smith Anc. Egyptians viii. 143If Egypt entered into relationship with Sumer by the northern—*Syro-Mesopotamian—route.
1939 L. H. Gray Foundations ofLang. 364was 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 [ Arabic] . [ etc.]
1976 Times 31 Jan. 13/2 Israeli intervention?.. The mere threat of it headed off Syro-Palestinian intervention in the Jordanian civil war of 1970.
1907 Edin. Rev. Apr. 480Ornaments which may be described as *Syro-Persian.
1818 Horne Introd. Study Bible (1827) 115The Philoxenian or *Syro-Philoxenian Version derives its name from Philoxenus or Xenayas, Bishop of Hierapolis in Syria, a.d. 488–518.
1686 Ussher's Lett. 41That æra Dhilcarnaim is placed by Albategnius in the beginning of the *Syro-Roman Elul or September.
ORIGIN: Greek Suro- combining form of Suros a Syrian: cf. Syrian