Φραόρτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median 𐎳𐎼𐎺𐎼𐎫𐎡𐏁 (“Fravartiš”, literally “guardian angel”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φρᾰόρτης • (Phrăórtēs) m (genitive Φρᾰόρτου); third declension

  1. a male given name, Phraortes, from Old Median, son of Deioces and king of Media

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Φρᾰόρτης; τοῦ Φρᾰόρτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Φρᾰόρτης
ho Phrăórtēs
Genitive τοῦ Φρᾰόρτου
toû Phrăórtou
Dative τῷ Φρᾰόρτῃ
tōî Phrăórtēi
Accusative τὸν Φρᾰόρτην
tòn Phrăórtēn
Vocative Φρᾰόρτᾰ
Phrăórtă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Latin: Phraortēs

References

  1. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “1.2.17 Fravartiš (F-r-v-r-t-i-š-)”, 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 16

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