Ἀρτεμβάρης

Ἀρτεμβάρης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Bororwed from Old Persian *R̥tambara (literally “bringing/carrying Arta”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.tem.bá.rɛːs/ → /ar.temˈba.ris/ → /ar.temˈba.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.tem.bá.rɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.temˈba.re̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.temˈba.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.temˈba.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.temˈba.ris/

Proper noun

Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρης • (Artembárēs) m (genitive Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρου); third declension

1. a male given name from Old Persian: Artembares
   1. a Median eunuch and head of the cupbearers under Astyages
   2. the grandfather of Artayctes
   3. an Achaemenid army commander who died at the Battle of Salamis
   4. a descendant of Harpagus and dynast of Pinara in Lycia

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρης; τοῦ Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρης ho Artembárēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρου toû Artembárou
Dative	τῷ Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρῃ tôi Artembárēi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρην tòn Artembárēn
Vocative	Ἀρτεμβᾰ́ρη Artembárē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Artembarēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Ἀρτεμβάρης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 39b
• Ἀρτεμβάρης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)

References

1. Hinz, Walther (1975), “*rtambara”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 213
2. Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.1485. *Ṛtambara-”, 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 298