Cyaxares

From Old Median *Huvaxšarah via Ancient Greek Κυαξάρης (Kuaxárēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kyˈak.sa.reːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈak.sa.res]

Cyaxarēs m sg (genitive Cyaxaris); third declension

1. A king of Media and son of Phraortes

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Cyaxares”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray