Πισσούθνης
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Old Persian *Pišišyauθnah.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pis.sǔː.tʰnɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pisˈsu.tʰne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pisˈsu.θnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pisˈsu.θnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈsu.θnis/
Proper noun edit
Πισσούθνης • (Pissoúthnēs) m (genitive Πισσούθνου); first declension
- a male given name from Old Persianː Pissuthnes, a satrap of Lydia and grandson of Darius I
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Πισσούθνης ho Pissoúthnēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Πισσούθνου toû Pissoúthnou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Πισσούθνῃ tôi Pissoúthnēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Πισσούθνην tòn Pissoúthnēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πισσούθνη Pissoúthnē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnis)
- → Latin: Pissūthnēs
References edit
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 467
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*pišyauθna-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 192
Further reading edit
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Πισσούθνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 254a
- Πισσούθνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022