Σειρήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly originally "entangler" or "binder," from σειρά (seirá, “rope, cord”), from εἴρω (eírō).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σειρήν • (Seirḗn) f (genitive Σειρῆνος); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) a Siren

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σειρήν; τῆς Σειρῆνος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ Σειρήν
hē Seirḗn		 τὼ Σειρῆνε
tṑ Seirêne		 αἱ Σειρῆνες
hai Seirênes
Genitive τῆς Σειρῆνος
tês Seirênos		 τοῖν Σειρήνοιν
toîn Seirḗnoin		 τῶν Σειρήνων
tôn Seirḗnōn
Dative τῇ Σειρῆνῐ
têi Seirêni		 τοῖν Σειρήνοιν
toîn Seirḗnoin		 ταῖς Σειρῆσῐ / Σειρῆσῐν
taîs Seirêsi(n)
Accusative τὴν Σειρῆνᾰ
tḕn Seirêna		 τὼ Σειρῆνε
tṑ Seirêne		 τᾱ̀ς Σειρῆνᾰς
tā̀s Seirênas
Vocative Σειρήν
Seirḗn		 Σειρῆνε
Seirêne		 Σειρῆνες
Seirênes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

References
  • Σειρήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
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