ad. Gr. Συρο-, combining form of Σύρος a Syrian, used with adjs. or sbs. denoting other peoples, countries, languages, etc., signifying ‘Syrian or in a Syrian way,’ or ‘Syrian and…,’ as Syro-Arabian, -Babylonian, -Chaldaic, -Chaldean, -Galilean, -Græco-Roman, -Hebraic, -hexaplar, -Macedonian, -Mesopotamian, -Persian, -Roman.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 140. The *Syro-Arabian nations, termed by Eichhorn and other German writers Semitic.
1845. Kitto, Cycl. Bibl. Lit., s.v. Alphabet, A remarkable coincidence between the Syro-Arabian alphabet and the phonetic hieroglyphs. Ibid. The earliest monuments of the Syro-Arabians.
1862. trans. Renan’s Age & Antiq. Bk. Nabathæan Agric., iii. 90. The School of Harran, which perpetuated the traditions of the *Syro-Babylonian school.
1845. Kitto, Cycl. Bibl. Lit., s.v. 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.
1808. Stower, Printer’s Gram., 289. *Syro-Galilean … Syro-Hebraic [alphabets].
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., 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.
1808. *Syro-Hebraic [see Syro-Galilean].
1865. J. H. Ingraham, Pillar of Fire, I. ix. Another Syro-Hebraic dynasty.
1863. Smith’s 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.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. 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. De Quincey, Essenes, III. Wks. 1890, VII. 161. 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.
1907. Edin. Rev., April, 480. Ornaments which may be described as *Syro-Persian.
1818. Horne, Introd. Study Bible (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.
