Ctesiphon

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Etymology

From Latin Ctēsiphōn, from Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn).

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Ctesiphon

  1. (historical) An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
    • 1947, Robert Frost, “The Ingenuities of Debt”, in Steeple Bush:
      These I assume were words so deeply meant / They cut themselves in stone for permanent / Like trouble in the brow above the eyes: / ‘Take Care to Sell Your Horse before He Dies / The Art of Life Is Passing Losses on.’ / The city saying it was Ctesiphon, / Which may a little while by war and trade / Have kept from being caught with the decayed, / Infirm, worn-out, and broken on its hands; […]

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn). In Old Latin, it was declined as Ctēsiphōn, Ctēsiphōnis.

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Proper noun

Ctēsiphōn f sg (genitive Ctēsiphōntis); third declension

  1. Ctesiphon (the ancient capital of Parthia, in modern Iraq)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Ctēsiphōn
Genitive Ctēsiphōntis
Dative Ctēsiphōntī
Accusative Ctēsiphōntem
Ablative Ctēsiphōnte
Vocative Ctēsiphōn
Locative Ctēsiphōntī
Ctēsiphōnte

References

  • “Ctesiphon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ctesiphon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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