Ὀστάνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median *ʰUštāna (literally “With a good status/rank”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /os.tá.nɛːs/ → /osˈta.nis/ → /osˈta.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /os.tá.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /osˈta.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /osˈta.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /osˈta.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /osˈta.nis/

Proper noun

Οστᾰ́νης • (Ostánēs) m (genitive Οστᾰ́νου); third declension

1. a male given name from Old Median: Ostanes, a Persian ruler

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Οστᾰ́νης; τοῦ Οστᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Οστᾰ́νης ho Ostánēs
Genitive	τοῦ Οστᾰ́νου toû Ostánou
Dative	τῷ Οστᾰ́νῃ tôi Ostánēi
Accusative	τὸν Οστᾰ́νην tòn Ostánēn
Vocative	Οστᾰ́νη Ostánē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Ostanēs

Further reading

• Ὀστάνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Austanes”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 52b