Ἀρσίτης

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Ancient Greek

 Arsites on Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *R̥šitah.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἀρσῑ́της • (Arsī́tēs) m (genitive Ἀρσῑ́του); third declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian: Arsites
    1. a son of Artaxerxes I and Cosmartidene killed by Parysatis
    2. father of Mithropastes and satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀρσῑ́της; τοῦ Ἀρσῑ́του (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ἀρσῑ́της
ho Arsī́tēs
Genitive τοῦ Ἀρσῑ́του
toû Arsī́tou
Dative τῷ Ἀρσῑ́τῃ
tôi Arsī́tēi
Accusative τὸν Ἀρσῑ́την
tòn Arsī́tēn
Vocative Ἀρσῖτᾰ
Arsîtă
Notes:

Descendants

  • → Latin: Arsītēs

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*ršita-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 206-207
  2. ^ 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
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