syringes

See syringe.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭ-rĭnʹjĭz, IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/, /ˈsɪɹɪn(d)ʒɪz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/, /ˈsɪɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
• Hyphenation: sy‧ring‧es

syringes

1. plural of syringe

Learned borrowing from Latin sȳringes.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭ-rĭnʹjēz, IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiz/, /sə-/
• Hyphenation: sy‧ring‧es

syringes

1. plural of syrinx

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syːˈrɪŋ.ɡɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈrin̠ʲ.d͡ʒes]

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sȳringes f pl (genitive sȳringum); third declension

1. caverns or subterranean passages

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only.

• “sȳringes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sȳringes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,535/1”

Regularly declined forms of sȳrinx.

sȳringes f

1. nominative/vocative plural of sȳrinx