Σατιφέρνης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *Šyātifarnāʰ (literally “knowing prosperity and glory”).[1][2]
Proper noun
Σατιφέρνης • (Satiphérnēs) m (genitive Σατιφέρνους); third declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Satiphernes
- friend of Cyrus the Younger killed by Artaxerxes II at the Battle of Cunaxa
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Σατιφέρνης; τοῦ Σατιφέρνους (contracted, Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Σατιφέρνης ho Satiphérnēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Σατιφέρνους toû Satiphérnous | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Σατιφέρνει tôi Satiphérnei | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Σατιφέρνη tòn Satiphérnē | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Σατίφερνες Satíphernes | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Σατιφέρνης (Satiférnis)
- → Latin: Satiphernēs
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Σατιφέρνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 291b-292a
- Σατιφέρνης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
References
- Hinz, Walther (1975), “*šyātifarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 231
- Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1645. *Šyātifarnā-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 319