Ariabignes

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀριαβίγνης (Ariabígnēs), itself from Old Persian *Ariyabigna.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Ariabignēs m sg (genitive Ariabignis); third declension

  1. A son of Darius and a commander of the fleet of his brother Xerxes

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Ariabignēs
Genitive Ariabignis
Dative Ariabignī
Accusative Ariabignem
Ablative Ariabigne
Vocative Ariabignēs

References[edit]

  • Ariabignes”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ Rüdiger Schmitt, “Medisches und persisches Sprachgut bei Herodot,” ZDMG 117, 1967, p. 131