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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀριαβίγνης (Ariabígnēs), itself from Old Persian *Ariyabigna.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ariabignēs m sg (genitive Ariabignis); third declension
- A son of Darius and a commander of the fleet of his brother Xerxes
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Ariabignes”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- ^ Rüdiger Schmitt, “Medisches und persisches Sprachgut bei Herodot,” ZDMG 117, 1967, p. 131