Ξενοφῶν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ξένος (xénos, “strange”) +‎ φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice”)

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ξενοφῶν • (Xenophôn) m (genitive Ξενοφῶντος); third declension

  1. a male given name: Xenophon, notably borne by Xenophon of Athens

Declension
Third declension of ὁ Ξενοφῶν; τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Ξενοφῶν
ho Xenophôn
Genitive τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος
toû Xenophôntos
Dative τῷ Ξενοφῶντῐ
tôi Xenophônti
Accusative τὸν Ξενοφῶντᾰ
tòn Xenophônta
Vocative Ξενοφῶν
Xenophôn
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Albanian: Ksenofón
  • Armenian: Քսենոփոն (Kʻsenopʻon)
  • Greek: Ξενοφών (Xenofón), Ξενοφώντας (Xenofóntas)
  • Latin: Xenophōn

References
  • “Ξενοφῶν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ξενοφῶν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • 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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