Cyrene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē).

• IPA^(key): /saɪˈɹiːni/
• Rhymes: -iːni

Cyrene

1. (historical) an Ancient Greek colony in North Africa near the coast of Mediterranean Sea in the Cyrenaica region of present-day Libya.

   Holonym: Cyrenaica

• Cȳrēnae

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κῡρήνη (Kūrḗnē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kyːˈreː.neː/, [kyːˈreːneː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈre.ne/, [t͡ʃiˈrɛːne]

Cȳrēnē f sg (genitive Cȳrēnēs); first declension

1. Cyrene (a city in Libya, now Kuren)
2. Cyrene (a nymph, mother of Aristaeus)
3. Cyrene (a nymph, mother of Idmon)
4. Cyrene (a fountain in Thessaly)

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

• Cȳrēnēnsis

• “Cȳrēnē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Cȳrēnē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Cyrene f

1. Obsolete spelling of Cirena (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).