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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Median *Spitaka (literally “abundant”).[1][2]
Proper noun
Σπιτάκης • (Spitákēs) m (genitive Σπιτάκου); ? declension
- a male given name from Old Median: Spitaces
- a son Amytis and Spitamas, and grandson of Astyages
- an Indian nomarch in the army of Porus
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*spitaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 226
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1602. *Spitaka-”, 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
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Σπιτάκης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 309b