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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ξᾰνθός (xanthós, “yellow”) + -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās, “male name suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ksan.tʰí.aːs/ → /ksanˈθi.as/ → /ksanˈθi.as/
Proper noun
Ξᾰνθῐ́ᾱς • (Xanthíās) m (genitive Ξᾰνθῐ́ου); first declension
- a male given name: Xanthias, commonly given to slaves in the plays of Aristophanes
Inflection
References
- “Ξανθίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029