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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Median *Farnaka[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰar.ná.kɛːs/ → /ɸarˈna.cis/ → /farˈna.cis/
Proper noun
Φᾰρνᾰ́κης • (Pharnákēs) m (genitive Φᾰρνᾰ́κου); first declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Pharnaces
Inflection
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Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*farnaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 94
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.567. *Farnaka-”, in 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 178