Στέφανος

See also: στέφανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From στέφανος (stéphanos, “crown”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sté.pʰa.nos/ → /ˈste.ɸa.nos/ → /ˈste.fa.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sté.pʰa.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste.pʰa.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.ɸa.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.fa.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈste.fa.nos/

Proper noun

Στέφανος • (Stéphanos) m (genitive Στεφάνου); second declension

1. a male given name
2. In particular: Stephen, an early Christian martyr.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Στέφᾰνος; τοῦ Στεφᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Στέφᾰνος ho Stéphanos
Genitive	τοῦ Στεφᾰ́νου toû Stephánou
Dative	τῷ Στεφᾰ́νῳ tôi Stephánōi
Accusative	τὸν Στέφᾰνον tòn Stéphanon
Vocative	Στέφᾰνε Stéphane
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Albanian: Shtjefen, Stefan
• Arabic: إصتفان (ʼIṣtafān, ʼIṣtifān)
• Armenian: Ստեփանոս (Stepʻanos), Ստեփան (Stepʻan)
• Azerbaijani: İstfan, Stepan
• Bulgarian: Стефан (Stefan)
• Catalan: Esteve
• Czech: Štěpán
• Danish: Steffen, Stephen, Stefan, Stephan
• Dutch: Steven, Stefan, Stefanus
• English: Stephen, Steven
• Fijian: Sitiveni
• Finnish: Tapani
• French: Étienne, Stéphane
• German: Stefan, Stephan, Steffen
• Greek: Στέφανος (Stéfanos)
• Hawaiian: Kepano, Kiwini
• Hebrew: סטפן (Səṭēp̄ān, Setefan, Stefan)
• Hungarian: István
• Icelandic: Stefán
• Irish: Steafán, Stiofán
• Italian: Stefano

• Latin: Stephanus
• Lithuanian: Steponas, Stepas
• Maltese: Stiefnu
• Norwegian: Steffen
• Polish: Stefan, Szczepan
• Portuguese: Estevão
• Romanian: Ștefan
• Russian: Стефан (Stefan), Степан (Stepan)
• Scottish Gaelic: Stíobhan
• Serbo-Croatian: Стефан/Stefan, Стеван/Stevan, Степан/Stepan, Шћепан/Šćepan/Stjepan
• Slovak: Štefan
• Slovene: Štefan
• Spanish: Esteban, Estefan
• Swedish: Staffan, Stefan
• Tagalog: Esteban
• Tongan: Sitiveni
• Turkish: İstefanos, İstvan
• Ukrainian: Степан (Stepan), Стефан (Stefan)
• Welsh: Steffan

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4736 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 186
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN