Ῥοισάκης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ῥωσάκης (Rhōsákēs)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Old Persian *Rōcakah, from Old Persian *Raucakah.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.sá.kɛːs/ → /ryˈsa.cis/ → /riˈsa.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥oi̯.sá.kɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ryˈsa.ke̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsa.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ryˈsa.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /riˈsa.cis/

Proper noun

Ῥοισάκης • (Rhoisákēs) m (genitive Ῥοισάκου); first declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Rhoesaces
   1. a Persian refugee in Athens and friend of Cimon

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ῥοισάκης; τοῦ Ῥοισάκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῥοισάκης ho Rhoisákēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ῥοισάκου toû Rhoisákou
Dative	τῷ Ῥοισάκῃ tôi Rhoisákēi
Accusative	τὸν Ῥοισάκην tòn Rhoisákēn
Vocative	Ῥοισάκη Rhoisákē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Rhoesacēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ῥοισάκης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 262a
• Ῥοισάκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette