Palmyra

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

• (UK, US) enPR: păl-mīʹrə, IPA^(key): /pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/

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• Hyphenation: Pal‧my‧ra
• Rhymes: -aɪɹə

Palmyra

1. An ancient city, an oasis 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, published 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”, in 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, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.
3. A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
4. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Palmyra Township.

(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).

• Northern Palmyra
• North Palmyra (township)
• Palmyran

• Palmyrena
• Palmyrene
• Palmyrenian

• Tadmorean

• palmary

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

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Palmyra n (proper noun, genitive Palmyras or (optionally with an article) Palmyra)

1. Palmyra (ancient Semitic city in modern Syria)

• Palmyrer
• palmyrisch

• Palmyrene
• Palmyrener
• palmyrenisch

• Palmīra

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈmyː.ra/, [päɫ̪ˈmyːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈmi.ra/, [pälˈmiːrä]

Palmȳra f sg (genitive Palmȳrae); first declension

1. Palmyra (ancient Semitic city in modern Syria)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin Palmȳra, from Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

• IPA^(key): /palˈmɨ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɨra
• Syllabification: Pal‧my‧ra

Palmyra f

1. (historical) Palmyra

• Palmyra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Palmyra f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Palmira.