Ῥωξάνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Bactrian [Term?]. Akin to Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬑𐬱𐬥𐬀 (raoxšna, “radiant, shining”) and Persian روشن (rowšan).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /r̥ɔːk.sǎː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /r̥okˈsa.ne/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /rokˈsa.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /rokˈsa.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /rokˈsa.ni/
Proper noun
Ῥωξᾱ́νη • (Rhōxā́nē) f (genitive Ῥωξᾱ́νης); first declension
- Roxana (the wife of Alexander the Great)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Ῥωξᾱ́νη hē Rhōxā́nē | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ῥωξᾱ́νης tês Rhōxā́nēs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ῥωξᾱ́νῃ têi Rhōxā́nēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ῥωξᾱ́νην tḕn Rhōxā́nēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ῥωξᾱ́νη Rhōxā́nē | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Catalan: Roxana
- Danish: Roxana
- Dutch: Roxane
- English: Roxana, Roxane, Roxanne
- Finnish: Roksane
- French: Roxane
- German: Roxane
- Greek: Ρωξάνη (Roxáni)
- Hebrew: רוקסנה
- Hungarian: Rhóxané
- Italian: Rossane
- Latin: Roxana
- Norwegian: Roxana
- Persian: رکسانه (Roksâne), رکسانه (Roksânâ)
- Polish: Roksana
- Russian: Рокса́на (Roksána)
- Serbo-Croatian: Roksana
- Spanish: Roxana
- Swedish: Roxana
- Welsh: Roxana
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
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