Πείσανδρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compound of πείθω (peíthō, “to convince”) +‎ ἀνήρ (anḗr, “a man”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Πείσᾰνδρος • (Peísandros) m (genitive Πεισᾰ́νδρου); second declension

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Pisander

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Πείσᾰνδρος; τοῦ Πεισᾰ́νδρου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Πείσᾰνδρος
ho Peísandros
Genitive τοῦ Πεισᾰ́νδρου
toû Peisándrou
Dative τῷ Πεισᾰ́νδρῳ
tôi Peisándrōi
Accusative τὸν Πείσᾰνδρον
tòn Peísandron
Vocative Πείσᾰνδρε
Peísandre
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Πείσανδρος (Peísandros)
  • → Latin: Pisander (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • “Πείσανδρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Πείσανδρος”, 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 1,022
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