Ῥωξάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Rauxšnā̆ (“the shining, light”).

Proper noun

Ῥωξάνης • (Rhōxánēs) m (genitive Ῥωξάνους); third declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Roxanes, an Achaemenid chiliarch

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ῥωξάνης; τοῦ Ῥωξάνους (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥωξάνης ho Rhōxánēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥωξάνους toû Rhōxánous
Dative	τῷ Ῥωξάνει tôi Rhōxánei
Accusative	τὸν Ῥωξάνη tòn Rhōxánē
Vocative	Ῥώξανες Rhṓxanes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ρωξάνης (Roxánis)
• → Latin: Rōxanēs

Further reading

• Ῥωξάνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ῥωξάνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 262