Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. · One who sings sweetly and charms. · A dangerously seductive woman. · A member of Sirenia, an order of mammals.
From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles.
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