Ariabignes

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀριαβίγνης (Ariabígnēs), itself from Old Persian *Ariyabigna.[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ariabignēs m sg (genitive Ariabignis); third declension

  1. A son of Darius and a commander of the fleet of his brother Xerxes

Declension

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Third-declension noun, singular only.

References

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  • Ariabignes”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ Rüdiger Schmitt, “Medisches und persisches Sprachgut bei Herodot,” ZDMG 117, 1967, p. 131