Latin

Proper noun

Syēnē f ‎(genitive Syēnēs); first declension

1. Aswan (city in southern Egypt)
2. (poetic, metonymically) syenite (the red hornblende granite of Syene, for which it was famous)

Declension

First declension, Greek type, with locative.

Related terms

• Syēnītēs

References

• SYE´NE in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Sy̆ēnē in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Sy̆ēnē”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,532.
• “Syēnē” on page 1,895/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)