Ψαμμήτιχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Egyptian (psmṯk).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psam.mɛ̌ː.ti.kʰos/ → /psamˈmi.ti.xos/ → /psaˈmi.ti.xos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psam.mɛ̌ː.ti.kʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /psamˈme̝.ti.kʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /psamˈmi.ti.xos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /psamˈmi.ti.xos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /psaˈmi.ti.xos/

Proper noun

Ψᾰμμήτῐχος • (Psammḗtikhos) m (genitive Ψᾰμμητῐ́χος); second declension

1. a male given name from Egyptian: Psammetichus, the name of various Egyptian pharaohs

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ψᾰμμήτῐχος; τοῦ Ψᾰμμητῐ́χου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ψᾰμμήτῐχος ho Psammḗtikhos
Genitive	τοῦ Ψᾰμμητῐ́χου toû Psammētíkhou
Dative	τῷ Ψᾰμμητῐ́χῳ tôi Psammētíkhōi
Accusative	τὸν Ψᾰμμήτῐχον tòn Psammḗtikhon
Vocative	Ψᾰμμήτῐχε Psammḗtikhe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ψαμμήτιχος (Psammítichos)
• → Latin: Psammētichus

Further reading

• Ψαμμήτιχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023