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.
| 1841 J. 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. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 140 The 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. Nabathæan Agric. iii. 90 The traditions of the *Syro-Babylonian school. |
| 1835 Q. Rev. Sept. 307 A remarkable *Syro-Chaldaic lectionarium in the Vatican library. 1836 N. Wiseman Lect. Doctr. Cath. Ch. II. xiv. 152 In 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. 217 Rites and ceremonies were performed like those of the *Syro-Egyptian church. |
| 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 289 *Syro-Galilean..Syro-Hebraic [alphabets]. 1824 J. 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. |
| 1686 Ussher's Lett. 41 From 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. 1629/2 The *Syro-Hexaplar version [i.e. Syriac version from Hexaplar Greek Text] was made on the principle of following the Greek, word for word. |
| 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 176/2 *Syro-Hittite seals. 1962 D. 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. |
| 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. 161 Under the Syro-Macedonian kings. |
| 1911 G. Elliot Smith Anc. Egyptians viii. 143 If Egypt entered into relationship with Sumer by the northern—*Syro-Mesopotamian—route. |
| 1939 L. 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.]. 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. 480 Ornaments which may be described as *Syro-Persian. |
| 1818 Horne 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. |
| 1686 Ussher's Lett. 41 That æra Dhilcarnaim is placed by Albategnius in the beginning of the *Syro-Roman Elul or September. |