ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΟΥΣ, βακτριανους
BAKTRIANOUS, baktrianous
Sounds Like: bak-tree-ah-NOOS
Translations: Bactrians, the Bactrians
From the root: ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word refers to people or things from Bactria, an ancient region in Central Asia, located north of the Hindu Kush mountains and south of the Amu Darya river. It is used here in the accusative plural, indicating the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
Inflection: Plural, Masculine, Accusative
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:145
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΟΣ — Bactrian, a Bactrian
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