# Palmyra
## English
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra). For more see Palmyra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: păl-mīʹrə, IPA: /pælˈmaɪ.ɹə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: Pal‧my‧ra
* Rhymes: -aɪɹə

### Proper noun

Palmyra
* An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
** 1979, Javier Teixidor, The Pantheon of Palmyra, E. J. Brill, page 53:In the mid-fifth century B.C. Herodotus (1:131; 3.8) mentioned the importance of the cult of Al-Ilât, i.e. Allat, in ancient Arabia. Her sanctuary at Palmyra (Pl. XVII), excavated in the 1970s by the Polish mission, is in the neighborhood of the temple of Baal Shamin and lends a special character to the city's western quarter, in which Arab tribes settled during the second century B.C.
** 1994, Lindsey Davis, Last Act In Palmyra, Random House, published 2011, page 297:The chief man in Palmyra had been charged by Rome to police the trade routes, paying for his militia from his own well-stuffed coffers as befitted a rich man with a civic conscience.
** 2005, Sebastian P. Brock, “Greek and Latin Words in Palmyrene Inscriptions: A comparison with Syriac”, in Eleonora Cussini, editor, A Journey to Palmyra: Collected Essays to Remember Delbert R. Hillers, E. J. Brill, page 11:Edessa lies just under 300 kilometres north of Palmyra as the crow flies, and its Aramaic dialect, known today as Syriac, is closely related to that of Palmyra.
* A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.
* A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
* A number of townships in the United States, listed under Palmyra Township.

#### Usage notes

(ancient city):
* The inhabitants of the remnant village were relocated in 1932, during the French Mandate of Syria, to a new village nearby called Tadmur (from the old Palmyrene and Arabic name for Palmyra).

#### Derived terms

* Northern Palmyra
* North Palmyra (township)
* Palmyran

#### Related terms

* Palmyrena
* Palmyrene
* Palmyrenian

#### Translations
### See also

* Tadmorean

### Anagrams

* palmary

## German
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Palmyra n (proper noun, genitive Palmyras or (optionally with an article) Palmyra)
* Palmyra (ancient Semitic city in modern Syria)

#### Derived terms

* Palmyrer
* palmyrisch

#### Related terms

* Palmyrene
* Palmyrener
* palmyrenisch

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Palmīra

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /palˈmyː.ra/, [päɫ̪ˈmyːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /palˈmi.ra/, [pälˈmiːrä]

### Proper noun

Palmȳra f sg (genitive Palmȳrae); first declension
* Palmyra (ancient Semitic city in modern Syria)

#### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

### References

* “Palmyra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Palmyra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Palmȳra, from Ancient Greek Παλμύρα (Palmúra).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /palˈmɘ.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘra
* Syllabification: Pal‧my‧ra

### Proper noun

Palmyra f
* (historical) Palmyra

#### Related terms

* Palmyrena

### Further reading

* Palmyra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Palmyra f
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Palmira.