Τισσαφέρνης
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Τισαφέρνης (Tisaphérnēs)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *Ciçafarnāh.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tis.sa.pʰér.nɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /tis.saˈpʰer.ne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tis.saˈɸer.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tis.saˈfer.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.saˈfer.nis/
Proper noun
Τισσαφέρνης • (Tissaphérnēs) m (genitive Τισσαφέρνου); first declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Tissaphernes
- son of Hydarnes III and satrap of Lydia and Ionia under Darius II
Inflection
| 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 | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Τισσαφέρνης (Tissaférnis)
- → Latin: Tissaphernēs
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Čiθrafarnā”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164a
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,028
- Τισσαφέρνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
References
- ^ 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, pages 154-155