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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *Dātiyah.[1][2]
Proper noun
Δᾶτις • (Dâtis) m (genitive Δᾶτιδος); third declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Datis, an Achaemenid admiral who led Darius I's invasion of Greece
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.522. *Dātiya-/*Dātīš”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 172
- ^ Rüdiger Schmitt (2011) Iranische Personennamen in de Griechischen Literatur vor Alexander d. Gr. [Iranian Personal Names in Greek Literature before Alexander the Great] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 5A, pages 183-184
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