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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Persian *Spiθradātah.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spi.tʰra.dǎː.tɛːs/ → /spi.θraˈða.tis/ → /spi.θraˈða.tis/
Proper noun
Σπῐθρᾰδᾱ́της • (Spithradā́tēs) m (genitive Σπῐθρᾰδᾱ́του); first declension
- a male given name from Old Persian: Spithradates
- an Achaemenid military officer send by Darius II to quell the rebellion of Pissuthnes
Inflection
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Further reading
References
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*spiθradāta”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 227
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1600. *Spiθradāta < *Spiθradāta”, 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 314