English
Proper noun
Aristophanes
- An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.
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Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης (Aristophánēs).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.risˈto.pʰa.neːs/, [a.rɪsˈtɔ.pʰa.neːs]
Proper noun
Aristophanēs m (variously declined, genitive Aristophanis or Aristophanae); third declension, first declension
- Aristophanes: a male given name — famously held by:
- Aristophanes simpliciter (circa 446–386 BC), ancient Athenian comic poet and playwright (the most distinguished comic poet of Greece, from Lindus, on the island of Rhodes, a contemporary of Socrates)
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- Aristophanes of Byzantium (circa 257–185/180 BC), Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic, and grammarian, head of the Library of Alexandria from 197 BC until his death, credited with the invention of polytonic Greek orthography (a distinguished grammarian of Byzantium, pupil of Eratosthenes, and teacher of the critic Aristarchus)
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Declension
| Third declension i-stem.
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First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.
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