Hyrie

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ὑρίη (Huríē).

Proper noun

Hyriē f sg (genitive Hyriēs); first declension

  1. A lake, and a town situated by it, in Boeotia; Hyria.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.377–381:
      Ille indignatus 'cupies dare' dixit et alto
      desiluit saxo; cuncti cecidisse putabant:
      factus olor niveis pendebat in aere pennis;
      at genetrix Hyrie, servati nescia, flendo
      delicuit stagnumque suo de nomine fecit.
      Scorned, [Cycnus] said 'You'll want to deliver [the bull]'
      and from a tall rock he threw himself, all sure of his death,
      but in mid-air, made into a swan, by pearly feathers stood.
      His mother Hyrie, however, not knowing him saved,
      weeping wasted away and was turned into a lake.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.7:
      In ora autem infra Thebas Ocalee, Eteonos, Scolos, Schoenos, Peteon, Hyrie, Mycalesos, Ireseum et Eleon, Ollarum, Tanagra, liber populus, et in ipsis faucibus Euripi, quem facit obiecta insula Euboea, Aulis capaci nobilis portu. Boeotos Hyantas antiquitus dixere.
      On the coast below Thebes are Ocalee, Heleon, Scolos, Schoenos, Peteon, Hyrie, Mycalesos, Ireseum, Pteleon, Olyarum, Tanagra (a free state), and right in the channel of the Euripus, formed by the island of Euboea lying opposite, Aulis, famous for its spacious harbour. The Boeotians had the name of Hyantes in earlier days.
  2. The ancient former name of Zakynthos, a Greek island on the Ionian sea.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12:
      Inter hanc et Achaiam cum oppido magnifica et fertilitate praecipua Zacynthus, aliquando appellata Hyrie, a Cephallaniae meridiana parte XXV abest.
      Between Same and the coast of Achaia lies Zakynthos, distinguished by its fine town and remarkable for the fertility of its soil; it was at one time called Hyrie. It is 25 miles from the southern part of Cephallenia.

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

singular
nominative Hyriē
genitive Hyriēs
dative Hyriae
accusative Hyriēn
ablative Hyriē
vocative Hyriē

References

  • “Hyrĭē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hyriē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 762, column 2.

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