Arsames

Arsames

1. A male given name from Old Persian, of historical usage.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρσάμης (Arsámēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.sa.meːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.sa.mes]

Arsamēs m sg (genitive Arsamis); third declension

1. A king of Sophene

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Arsames”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray