Ξέρξης
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (Xšayāršā).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ksérk.sɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.se̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
Proper noun
editΞέρξης • (Xérxēs) m (genitive Ξέρξου); first declension (Attic, Ionic)
- a male given name, Xerxes, from Old Persian, the name of two kings of Persia.
Inflection
editDescendants
editDescendants
- Greek: Ξέρξης (Xérxis)
- → Arabic: خَرْخَس (ḵarḵas)
- → Georgian: ქსერქსე (kserkse)
- → Alemannic German: Xerxes
- → Bulgarian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- → Catalan: Xerxes
- → Czech: Xerxés
- → Danish: Xerxes
- → Dutch: Xerxes
- → English: Xerxes
- → Finnish: Kserkses
- → French: Xerxès
- → Galician: Xerxes
- → German: Xerxes
- → Hungarian: Xerxész
- → Italian: Serse
- → Japanese: クセルクセス (Kuserukusesu)
- → Korean: 크세르크세스 (keusereukeuseseu)
- → Latin: Xerxes (see there for further descendants)
- → Norwegian: Xerxes
- → Polish: Kserkses
- → Portuguese: Xerxes
- → Romanian: Xerxes
- → Russian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Ксеркс, Kserks
- → Slovak: Xerxes
- → Slovene: Kserkses
- → Spanish: Jerjes
- → Swedish: Xerxes
- → Ukrainian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- → Waray-Waray: Xerxes
Further reading
edit- Ξέρξης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Ξέρξης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
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