The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΚτησιφῶν
- Latin · borrowed fromCtēsiphōn
- English todayCtesiphon
From Latin Ctēsiphōn, from Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphôn).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ctesiphon
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin Ctēsiphōn ← Ancient Greek Κτησιφῶν