Πισσούθνης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *Pišišyauθnah.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pis.sǔː.tʰnɛːs/ → /pisˈsu.θnis/ → /piˈsu.θnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pis.sǔː.tʰnɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pisˈsu.tʰne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pisˈsu.θnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pisˈsu.θnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈsu.θnis/

Proper noun

Πισσούθνης • (Pissoúthnēs) m (genitive Πισσούθνου); first declension

1. a male given name from Old Persianː Pissuthnes, a satrap of Lydia and grandson of Darius I

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Πισσούθνης; τοῦ Πισσούθνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πισσούθνης ho Pissoúthnēs
Genitive	τοῦ Πισσούθνου toû Pissoúthnou
Dative	τῷ Πισσούθνῃ tôi Pissoúthnēi
Accusative	τὸν Πισσούθνην tòn Pissoúthnēn
Vocative	Πισσούθνη Pissoúthnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πισσούθνης (Pissoúthnis)
• → Latin: Pissūthnēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Πισσούθνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 254a
• Πισσούθνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022