Syme

Latin Sȳmē

• Symi, Simi (under Modern Greek influence)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪmiː/, /ˈsiːmi/

Syme

1. An island in the Dodecanese, Greece
   • 1903, Arthur Stoddard Cooley, “The Bronze Hermes from Antikythera”, in Records of the Past, volume 2, pages 207–208:

     About the end of 1900 Symæan divers fishing from the sponge-fishing boat ‘Photios Lentiakós,’ under Captain Demetrios E. Kontos, pulled up the well-preserved hand of a bronze statue off the north coast of Antikythera, the ancient Aigile (Cerigotto), near the place called to-day Pinakakia, about an hour distant from the river (whose mouth is) the principal mooring ground of the island. At this discovery the captain of the boat dived himself, and seeing in the place where the hand was found a heap of various ancient statues, he stopped fishing for sponges and got under way for Syme (an island off the coast of Asia Minor, 15 miles N. W. of Rhodes), whence after consultation with other patriotic Symæans he came to Athens and communicated the find to the Greek Government, begging at the same time for official permission to go forward at his own expense to bring up the statues.

2. A municipality of Rhodes, Greece

• Symaean

• Symi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Sim, the short form of Simon.

• IPA^(key): /saɪm/

Syme (plural Symes)

1. A surname transferred from the given name.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Syme is the 25659^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 961 individuals. Syme is most common among White (95.11%) individuals.

• Seym, emys, semy, yems, yes'm

Ancient Greek Σῡ́μη (Sū́mē)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsyː.meː/, [ˈs̠yːmeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me/, [ˈsiːme]

Sȳmē f sg (genitive Sȳmēs); first declension

1. Syme (an island in the Dodecanese, Greece)
   • c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 2.7.11:

     at interius Melos, Olearos, Aegilia, Cothon, Ius, Thia, Thera, Gyaros, Hippuris, Donysa, Cythnos, Chalcis, Icaria, Cinara, Nisyros, Lebinthos, Calymnia, Syme. hae quia dispersae sunt Sporades, at Ceos, Sicinos, Siphnos, Seriphos, Rhenea, Paros, Myconos, Syros, Tenos, Naxos, Delos, Andros quia in orbem iacent Cyclades dictae.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.133:

     Rhodiorum insulae Carpathus, quae mari nomen dedit, Casos, Hagne, Eulimna, Nisyros, distans a Cnido XV:D, Porphyris antea dicta, et eodem tractu media inter Rhodum Cnidumque Syme; cingitur XXXVII:D, portus benigne praebet VIII. praeter eas circa Rhodum Cyclopis, Teganon, Corydlusa, Diabatae IIII, Hymos, Chalce eum oppido, Teutlusa, Narthecusa, Dimastos, Progne et a Cnido Cisserusa, Therionarcia, Calydne cum tribus oppidis, Notio, Nisyro, Mendetero, et in Arconneso oppidum Ceramus. in Cariae ora quae vocantur Argiae numero XX et Hyetusa, Lepsia, Leros.

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

• Sȳmaeus

• → English: Syme

• Sy̆mē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1532/3.