Τισσαφέρνης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Τισαφέρνης (Tisaphérnēs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Ciçafarnāh.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tis.sa.pʰér.nɛːs/ → /tis.saˈɸer.nis/ → /ti.saˈfer.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tis.sa.pʰér.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tis.saˈpʰer.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /tis.saˈɸer.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /tis.saˈfer.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ti.saˈfer.nis/

Proper noun

Τισσαφέρνης • (Tissaphérnēs) m (genitive Τισσαφέρνου); first declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Tissaphernes
   1. son of Hydarnes III and satrap of Lydia and Ionia under Darius II

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Τισσαφέρνης; τοῦ Τισσαφέρνους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Τισσαφέρνης ho Tissaphérnēs	τὼ Τισσαφέρνᾱ tṑ Tissaphérnā	οἱ Τισσαφέρναι hoi Tissaphérnai
Genitive	τοῦ Τισσαφέρνους / Τισσαφέρνου toû Tissaphérnous / Tissaphérnou	τοῖν Τισσαφέρναιν toîn Tissaphérnain	τῶν Τισσαφερνῶν tôn Tissaphernôn
Dative	τῷ Τισσαφέρνει / Τισσαφέρνῃ tôi Tissaphérnei / Tissaphérnēi	τοῖν Τισσαφέρναιν toîn Tissaphérnain	τοῖς Τισσαφέρναις toîs Tissaphérnais
Accusative	τὸν Τισσαφέρνην tòn Tissaphérnēn	τὼ Τισσαφέρνᾱ tṑ Tissaphérnā	τοὺς Τισσαφέρνᾱς toùs Tissaphérnās
Vocative	Τισσαφέρνη Tissaphérnē	Τισσαφέρνᾱ Tissaphérnā	Τισσαφέρναι Tissaphérnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Τισσαφέρνης (Tissaférnis)
• → Latin: Tissaphernēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Čiθrafarnā”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164a
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028
• Τισσαφέρνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette