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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian *Parušātiš, a variant of *Parušyātiš (literally “with much prosperity”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.rý.sa.tis/ → /paˈry.sa.tis/ → /paˈri.sa.tis/
Proper noun
Παρύσατις • (Parúsatis) f (genitive Παρυσάτιδος); third declension
- a female given name from Old Persian: Parysatis
- wife of Hystaspes and mother of Darius the Great
- daughter of Artaxerxes I and Andia and wife of her step-brother Darius II and mother of Artaxerxes II and Cyrus the Younger
- youngest daughter of Artaxerxes II, whom Alexander the Great married after Roxane and at the same time as Stateira II
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*parušyāti-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 182
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1240. *Parušyātiš: *Paru-šyāti-š”, 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 267
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Παρύσατις. Παρυσάτις”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 244
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
- p. 291 in M. A. Dadamaev's A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire. Brill. 1989.