Aristophanes

English Etymology Borrowed from en la Aristophanēs, from the en grc Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης. Pronunciation en /æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/ RP en /ɛɹɪsˈtɑfəniz/ GA Proper noun An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC. Derived terms en Aristophanist Related terms en Aristophanean en Aristophanic en homo Aristophaneus Translations Aristophanes Arabic: ar أرِسْطُفان m, ar أرِسْطُفانِس m Armenian: hy Արիստոփանես Old Armenian: xcl Արիստոփանէս Danish: da Aristophanes Esperanto: eo Aristofano French: fr Aristophane m German: de Aristophanes m Greek: el Αριστοφάνης m Ancient Greek: grc Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης m Hungarian: hu Arisztophanész Kapampangan: pam Aristófanes Korean: ko ^아리스토파네스 Latin: la Aristophanēs m Macedonian: mk Аристофан m Mingrelian: xmf არისტოფანე Portuguese: pt Aristófanes m Russian: ru Аристофа́н m Spanish: es Aristófanes m Swedish: sv Aristofanes c Further reading Aristophanes en Danish Alternative forms da Aristofanes Etymology From da grc Ἀριστοφάνης. Pronunciation da [ɑiˈsd̥oˀfanɛs] Proper noun en Aristophanes Latin Etymology From the la grc Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης. Pronunciation Aristophanēs Proper noun ((Aristophanēs<3>,Aristophanēs<1>)) m la male Ancient Greek Aristophanes — 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 la 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 la Horace la Cicero la Aulus Gellius la Terentianus Maurus 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 la Cicero la Marcus Terentius Varro la Pliny the Elder la Quintilian Declension ((Aristophanēs<3>,Aristophanēs<1>)) Related terms la Aristophanēus Aristophanicus Aristophanīus Descendants en Aristophanes References Ăristŏphănes Aristophanes Aristŏphănēs 163/1 1 Aristophanēs 170/2 Further reading Aristophanes la Aristophanes Byzantius la