syrtis

English

Etymology

See syrt.

Noun

syrtis (plural syrtes)

  1. (obsolete) A quicksand.
    • Milton
      Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea / Nor good dry land.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for syrtis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

syrtis f (genitive syrtis); third declension

  1. sandbank

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative syrtis syrtēs
Genitive syrtis syrtium
Dative syrtī syrtibus
Accusative syrtem
syrtim		 syrtēs
syrtīs
Ablative syrte
syrtī		 syrtibus
Vocative syrtis syrtēs
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