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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Median *xšaθrapāvā,[1] which is cognate with Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠 (x-š-ç-p-a-v-a /xšaçapāvā/); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.trá.pɛːs/ → /saˈtra.pis/ → /saˈtra.pis/
Noun
σᾰτράπης • (satrápēs) m (genitive σᾰτράπου); first declension
- a satrap, title of a Persian viceroy or governor of a province (satrapy)
- In general, of any governor or lord
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Further reading
- “σατράπης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σατράπης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Schmitt, Rüdiger (2002) “Greece xii. Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, retrieved 2016-12-17
- Mackenzie, D. N. (1998) “ENGLISH i. Persian Elements in English”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, retrieved 2016-12-17