Σφενδαδάτης

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *Spantadātah.[1][2]

Proper noun

Σφενδαδάτης • (Sphendadátēs) m (genitive Σφενδαδάτου); first declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian: Sphendadates
    1. a Magian who usurped the Achaemenid throne after the murder of Smerdis and the death of Cambyses II; likely an epithet of Gaumāta

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Σφενδαδάτης; τοῦ Σφενδαδάτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Σφενδαδάτης
ho Sphendadátēs
Genitive τοῦ Σφενδαδάτου
toû Sphendadátou
Dative τῷ Σφενδαδάτῃ
tôi Sphendadátēi
Accusative τὸν Σφενδαδάτην
tòn Sphendadátēn
Vocative Σφενδαδάτᾰ
Sphendadáta
Notes:

Descendants

Further reading

  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Spentōdāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎ (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 308

References

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*spntadāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 227
  2. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1595. *Spantadāta-”, 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 313
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