Ξέρξης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (Xšayāršā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ksérk.sɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈksɛrk.ses/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkserk.sis/
Proper noun
Ξέρξης • (Xérxēs) m (genitive Ξέρξου); first declension
(Attic, Ionic)
- Xerxes, the name of two kings of Persia.
Inflection
Descendants
- Alemannic German: Xerxes
- Bulgarian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- Catalan: Xerxes
- Czech: Xerxés
- Danish: Xerxes
- Dutch: Xerxes
- English: Xerxes
- Finnish: Kserkses
- French: Xerxès
- Galician: Xerxes
- German: Xerxes
- Greek: Ξέρξης (Xérxis)
- Hungarian: Xerxész
- Italian: Serse
- Japanese: クセルクセス (Kuserukusesu)
- Korean: 크세르크세스 (keusereukeuseseu)
- Latin: Xerxes
- Norwegian: Xerxes
- Polish: Kserkses
- Portuguese: Xerxes
- Romanian: Xerxes
- Russian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- Serbo-Croatian: Ксеркс, Kserks
- Slovak: Xerxes
- Slovene: Kserkses
- Spanish: Jerjes
- Swedish: Xerxes
- Ukrainian: Ксеркс (Kserks)
- Waray-Waray: Xerxes
References
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
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