Ἀρσίτης
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Persian *R̥šitah.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.sǐː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /arˈsi.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /arˈsi.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /arˈsi.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /arˈsi.tis/
Proper noun edit
Ἀρσῑ́της • (Arsī́tēs) m (genitive Ἀρσῑ́του); third declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Arsites
- a son of Artaxerxes I and Cosmartidene killed by Parysatis
- father of Mithropastes and satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ἀρσῑ́της ho Arsī́tēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ἀρσῑ́του toû Arsī́tou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ἀρσῑ́τῃ tôi Arsī́tēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Ἀρσῑ́την tòn Arsī́tēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἀρσῖτᾰ Arsîta | ||||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → Latin: Arsītēs
Further reading edit
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ἀρσίτης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31a
- Ἀρσίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
References edit
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*ršita-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 206-207
- ^ 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 291