Ἀρσίτης

Ἀρσίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *R̥šitaʰ.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.sǐː.tɛːs/ → /arˈsi.tis/ → /arˈsi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.sǐː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈsi.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈsi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈsi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈsi.tis/

Proper noun

Ἀρσῑ́της • (Arsī́tēs) m (genitive Ἀρσῑ́του); third declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Arsites
   1. a son of Artaxerxes I and Cosmartidene killed by Parysatis
   2. father of Mithropastes and satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀρσῑ́της; τοῦ Ἀρσῑ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀρσῑ́της ho Arsī́tēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀρσῑ́του toû Arsī́tou
Dative	τῷ Ἀρσῑ́τῃ tôi Arsī́tēi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀρσῑ́την tòn Arsī́tēn
Vocative	Ἀρσῖτᾰ Arsîta
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Arsītēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Ἀρσίτης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31a
• Ἀρσίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)

References

1. Hinz, Walther (1975), “*ršita-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 206=207
2. 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 291