Aristophanes

Borrowed from Latin Aristophanēs, from the Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης (Aristophắnēs).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛɹɪsˈtɑfəniz/

Aristophanes

1. An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.

• Aristophanist

• Aristophanean
• Aristophanic
• homo Aristophaneus

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• Aristofanes

From Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφάνης (Aristophánēs).

• IPA^(key): [ɑiˈsd̥oˀfanɛs]

Aristophanes

1. Aristophanes

From the Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης (Aristophắnēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.rɪsˈtɔ.pʰa.neːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.risˈt̪ɔː.fa.nes]

Aristophanēs m sg (genitive Aristophanis or Aristophanae); variously declined, third declension, first declension

1. a male given name, Aristophanes, from Ancient Greek — famously held by:
   1. 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)
      • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria:

        Aristophanes quoque non uno libro sic institui pueros antiquitus solitos esse demonstrat

        Aristophanes, in more than one of his plays, demonstrates that boys were trained thus from antiquity

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   2. 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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Third-declension noun or first-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.

• English: Aristophanes

• “Ăristŏphănes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Aristŏphănēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 163/1.
• “Aristophanēs” on page 170/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Aristophanes on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Aristophanes Byzantius on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la