Syro-comb. form

1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. 6 The name of Syro-Arabians, formed on the same principle as the now generally admitted term of Indo-Europeans, would be a much more suitable expression.

1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. 6 The Syro-Arabian tribes lost, at an early period, their ascendancy among the civilized nations of the world.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 140 The Syro-Arabian nations, termed by Eichhorn and other German writers Semitic.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Alphabet A remarkable coincidence between the Syro-Arabian alphabet and the phonetic hieroglyphs.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Alphabet The earliest monuments of the Syro-Arabians.

1862 tr. Renan's Age & Antiq. Bk. Nabathæan Agric. iii. 90 The traditions of the Syro-Babylonian school.

1835 Q. Rev. Sept. 307 A remarkable Syro-Chaldaic lectionarium in the Vatican library.

1836 N. Wiseman Lect. Doctr. Catholic Church II. xiv. 152 In Syro-Chaldaic there is no expression for to accuse or calumniate.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. at Zinanion The Gospel of Matthew was (as some think) first written in Syro-Chaldaic.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 631/1 Syro-Chaldeans... The language of the mass and church~office is Syro-Chaldaic.

1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large vii. 217 Rites and ceremonies were performed like those of the Syro-Egyptian church.

1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 289 Syro-Galilean..Syro-Hebraic [alphabets].

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 295 The immediate descendants of the Hebrew [language] were the Samaritan, the Chaldaic, the Arabic, the Egyptian, the Ethiopian, and the Syro-Galilean.

1686 Ussher's Lett. 41 From the Syro-Græco-Roman Month, Elul Gorpiæus and September began.

1865 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. ix Another Syro-Hebraic dynasty.

1863 S. P. Tregelles in W. Smith Dict. Bible III. 1629/2 The Syro-Hexaplar version [i.e. Syriac version from Hexaplar Greek Text] was made on the principle of following the Greek, word for word.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Mar. 176/2 Syro-Hittite seals.

1962 D. Harden Phoenicians xiii. 180 Those cylinder-seals and stamp-seals often termed Syro-Hittite, whose motifs and style are so obviously derived from those of Assyria and Babylonia.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Seleucides The Æra of the Seleucides, or the Syro-Macedonian Æra.

1834 Mirror of Time 7 Feb. It corresponds..with the sixth moons, Dystrus, Sebastus, and Dius, of the Syro-Macedonians, Paphians, and Bithynians.

1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 645/2 Under the Syro-Macedonian kings.

1911 G. Elliot Smith Anc. Egyptians viii. 143 If Egypt entered into relationship with Sumer by the northern—Syro-Mesopotamian—route.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 364 [Arabic] was divided into several dialects, of which only that of Mekkah has survived, this being the parent of a large number of modern vernaculars, notably Arabian.., Irāqian.., Syro-Palestinian.., Egyptian [etc.].

1976 Times 31 Jan. 13/2 Israeli intervention?.. The mere threat of it headed off Syro-Palestinian intervention in the Jordanian civil war of 1970.

1907 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 480 Ornaments which may be described as Syro-Persian.

1818 T. H. Horne Introd. Crit. Study Holy Script. (1827) 115 The Philoxenian or Syro-Philoxenian Version derives its name from Philoxenus or Xenayas, Bishop of Hierapolis in Syria, a.d. 488–518.

1686 Ussher's Lett. 41 That æra Dhilcarnaim is placed by Albategnius in the beginning of the Syro-Roman Elul or September.