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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *Miθraupastah.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tʰro.pǎu̯s.tɛːs/ → /mi.θroˈpaɸs.tis/ → /mi.θroˈpafs.tis/
Proper noun
Μιθροπαύστης • (Mithropaústēs) m (genitive Μιθροπαύστου); first declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Mithropaustes, a cousin of Xerxes I
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Μιθροπαύστης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 216b
References
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*miθraupastā-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 160
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1122. *Miθraupastā-”, 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 252