Iaxartes

• Jaxartes

From Latin Iaxartes, from Ancient Greek Ἰαξάρτης (Iaxártēs), from Old Persian.

Iaxartes

1. The Syr Darya river.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , II.ii.3:

     I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?

• Jaxartēs

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰαξάρτης (Iaxártēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /jakˈsar.teːs/

Iaxartēs m (genitive Iaxartis); third declension

1. The Syr Darya river

Third declension.

• Iaxartes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Jaxartes in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly