Ctesiphon

English

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Etymology

From Latin Ctēsiphōn, from Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsɪfɒn/, /ˈstɛsɪfɒn/

Proper noun

Ctesiphon

1. (historical) An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
   • 1947, Robert Frost, “The Ingenuities of Debt”, in Steeple Bush:

     These I assume were words so deeply meant / They cut themselves in stone for permanent / Like trouble in the brow above the eyes: / ‘Take Care to Sell Your Horse before He Dies / The Art of Life Is Passing Losses on.’ / The city saying it was Ctesiphon, / Which may a little while by war and trade / Have kept from being caught with the decayed, / Infirm, worn-out, and broken on its hands; […]

Translations

ancient ruined city

Ancient Greek: Κτησιφῶν m (Ktēsiphôn) Arabic: المَدَائِن (al-madāʔin), قُطَيْسَفُون (quṭaysafūn), طَيْسَفُون (ṭaysafūn) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ (Qṭēsfōn) Armenian: Տիզբոն (Tizbon) Old Armenian: Տիզբոն (Tizbon), Տիսբոն (Tisbon) Azerbaijani: Ktesifon, Mədain Czech: Ktésifón French: Ctésiphon (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can Old Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Ktesiphon n Hebrew: קטסיפון Italian: Ctesifonte Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تیسفۆن (tîsfon) Northern Kurdish: Tîsfûn Latin: Ctēsiphōn f Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (tyspwn /⁠tēsifōn⁠/) Parthian: 𐫤𐫏𐫘𐫛𐫇𐫗 (tyspwn) (Manichaean) Persian: تیسفون (tisfun) Polish: Ktezyfon (pl) m Portuguese: Ctesifonte f Russian: Ктесифо́н m (Ktesifón) Sogdian: ܛܝܣܦܘܢ (tyspwn) Spanish: Ctesifonte Tajik: Тайса­фун (Taysa­fun), Тисфун (Tisfun) Turkish: Tizpon

Further reading

• Sasanian Empire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Siege of Ctesiphon (637) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Muslim conquest of Persia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• phonetics, sphenotic

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ctēsifōn (Vulgate spelling)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn). In Old Latin, it was declined as Ctēsiphōn, Ctēsiphōnis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkteː.sɪ.pʰoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkt̪ɛː.s̬i.fon]

Proper noun

Ctēsiphōn f sg (genitive Ctēsiphōntis); third declension

1. Ctesiphon (the ancient capital of Parthia, in modern Iraq)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ctēsiphōn
genitive	Ctēsiphōntis
dative	Ctēsiphōntī
accusative	Ctēsiphōntem
ablative	Ctēsiphōnte
vocative	Ctēsiphōn
locative	Ctēsiphōntī Ctēsiphōnte

References

• “Ctesiphon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ctesiphon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.