Φαρνάβαζος

Φαρνάβαζος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median *Farnabāzu- (literally “having Farnah's arm”)[1], from *farnah- (“glory, splendour”) + *bāzu- (“arm”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰar.ná.ba.zos/ → /ɸarˈna.βa.zos/ → /farˈna.va.zos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰar.ná.ba.zos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰarˈna.ba.zos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸarˈna.βa.zos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /farˈna.va.zos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /farˈna.va.zos/

Proper noun

Φαρνάβαζος • (Pharnábazos) m (genitive Φαρναβάζου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Pharnabazus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φαρνάβαζος; τοῦ Φαρναβάζου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φαρνάβαζος ho Pharnábazos
Genitive	τοῦ Φαρναβάζου toû Pharnabázou
Dative	τῷ Φαρναβάζῳ tôi Pharnabázōi
Accusative	τὸν Φαρνάβαζον tòn Pharnábazon
Vocative	Φαρνάβαζε Pharnábaze
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φαρνάβαζος (Farnávazos)
• → Latin: Pharnabazus

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021

1. Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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 177