Ἀρτυστώνη

Ἀρτυστώνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *R̥tastūnā (literally “pillar of Ṛta”)[1][2] or (“having Ṛta as pillar”).[3]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.tys.tɔ̌ː.nɛː/ → /ar.tysˈto.ni/ → /ar.tisˈto.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.tys.tɔ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.tysˈto.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.tysˈto.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.tysˈto.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ar.tisˈto.ni/

Proper noun

Ἀρτῠστώνη • (Artustṓnē) f (genitive Ἀρτῠστώνης); first declension

1. a female given name from Old Persian: Artystone
   1. a Persian princess, daughter of Cyrus the Great, wife of Darius the Great, and mother of Arsames and Gobryas

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἀρτῠστώνη; τῆς Ἀρτῠστώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἀρτῠστώνη hē Artustṓnē
Genitive	τῆς Ἀρτῠστώνης tês Artustṓnēs
Dative	τῇ Ἀρτῠστώνῃ têi Artustṓnēi
Accusative	τὴν Ἀρτῠστώνην tḕn Artustṓnēn
Vocative	Ἀρτῠστώνη Artustṓnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: Artystōnē
  • → Translingual: Artystone

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Ἀρτυστώνη”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 40b
• Ἀρτυστώνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)

References

1. Hinz, Walther (1975), “*rtastūnā-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 215
2. Rüdiger Schmitt, "ARTYSTONE" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1986
3. 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 301