Palmyra

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra). For more see Palmyra#Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /pælˈmaɪɹə/

Palmyra

1. An ancient oasis city in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
   • 1979, Javier Teixidor, The Pantheon of Palmyra, E. J. Brill, page 53,

     In the mid-fifth century B.C. Herodotus (1:131; 3.8) mentioned the importance of the cult of Al-Ilât, i.e. Allat, in ancient Arabia. Her sanctuary at Palmyra (Pl. XVII), excavated in the 1970s by the Polish mission, is in the neighborhood of the temple of Baal Shamin and lends a special character to the city's western quarter, in which Arab tribes settled during the second century B.C.

   • 1994, Lindsey Davis, Last Act In Palmyra, Random House, 2011, page 297,

     The chief man in Palmyra had been charged by Rome to police the trade routes, paying for his militia from his own well-stuffed coffers as befitted a rich man with a civic conscience.

   • 2005, Sebastian P. Brock, Greek and Latin Words in Palmyrene Inscriptions: A comparison with Syriac, Eleonora Cussini (editor), A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers, E. J. Brill, page 11,

     Edessa lies just under 300 kilometres north of Palmyra as the crow flies, and its Aramaic dialect, known today as Syriac, is closely related to that of Palmyra.

2. A city in, and the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, USA.
3. A census-designated place in, and the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, USA.

(ancient city):

• The inhabitants of the remnant village were relocated in 1932, during the French Mandate of Syria, to a new village nearby called Tadmur (from the old Palmyrene and Arabic name for Palmyra).

• Palmyrene

• Tadmorean

• palmary

• Palmīra

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

Palmȳra f sg (genitive Palmȳrae); first declension

1. Palmyra (ancient city in modern Syria, capital of the Palmyrene Empire)

First declension, with locative.

• Palmyra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Palmyra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Palmyra f

1. Obsolete spelling of Palmira (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).