Στέφανος

See also: στέφανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sté.pʰa.nos/ → /ˈste.ɸa.nos/ → /ˈste.fa.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sté.pʰa.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste.pʰa.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.ɸa.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.fa.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈste.fa.nos/

Proper noun

Στέφανος • (Stéphanos) m (genitive Στεφάνου); second declension

1. a male given name
2. In particular: Stephen, an early Christian martyr.

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Στέφᾰνος; τοῦ Στεφᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Στέφᾰνος ho Stéphanos
Genitive	τοῦ Στεφᾰ́νου toû Stephánou
Dative	τῷ Στεφᾰ́νῳ tôi Stephánōi
Accusative	τὸν Στέφᾰνον tòn Stéphanon
Vocative	Στέφᾰνε Stéphane
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: Shtjefen, Stefan
• → Arabic: إِصْتِفَان (ʔiṣtifān), اِسْتِفَانُوس (istifānūs)
• → Armenian: Ստեփանոս (Stepʻanos), Ստեփան (Stepʻan)
• → Azerbaijani: İstfan, Stepan
• → Bulgarian: Стефан (Stefan)
• → Czech: Štěpán
• → Danish: Steffen, Stephen, Stefan, Stephan
• → Fijian: Sitiveni
• → Finnish: Tapani
• → Georgian: სტეფანე (sṭepane)
• Greek: Στέφανος (Stéfanos)
• → Hawaiian: Kepano, Kiwini
• → Hebrew: סטפן (Səṭēp̄ān, Setefan, Stefan)
• → Icelandic: Stefán
• → Latin: Stephanus (see there for further descendants)
• → Lithuanian: Steponas, Stepas
• → Maltese: Stiefnu
• → Norwegian: Stefan, Steffen
• → Polish: Stefan, Szczepan
• → Romanian: Ștefan
• → Russian: Стефан (Stefan), Степан (Stepan)
• → Scottish Gaelic: Stíobhan
• → Serbo-Croatian: Стефан/Stefan, Стеван/Stevan, Степан/Stepan, Шћепан/Šćepan/Stjepan
• → Slovak: Štefan
• → Slovene: Štefan
• → Swedish: Staffan, Stefan
• → Tagalog: Esteban
• → Tongan: Sitiveni
• → Turkish: İstefanos, İstvan
• → Ukrainian: Степан (Stepan), Стефан (Stefan)
• → Welsh: Steffan
• → Yoruba: Sítéfánù

See also

(Greek):

• Στεφανάκης (Stefanákis)
• Στεφανής (Stefanís)
• Στεφανία (Stefanía)
• Στέφανος (Stéfanos)
• Στέφη (Stéfi)
• Στέφος (Stéfos)

Further reading

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4736 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 186
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos).

Proper noun

Στέφανος • (Stéfanos) m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Stephen

Declension

  Στέφανος

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Στέφανος •
genitive	Στεφάνου •  Στέφανου •
accusative	Στέφανο •
vocative	Στέφανε •

Further reading

• Στέφανος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el