Τιριδάτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Persian *Tīridāta (“given by the god Tir”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τῑρῐδᾱ́της • (Tīridā́tēs) m (genitive Τῑρῐδᾱ́του); first declension

  1. Tiridates

Inflection
First declension of ὁ Τῑρῐδᾱ́της; τοῦ Τῑρῐδᾱ́του (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Τῑρῐδᾱ́της
ho Tīridā́tēs
Genitive τοῦ Τῑρῐδᾱ́του
toû Tīridā́tou
Dative τῷ Τῑρῐδᾱ́τῃ
tôi Tīridā́tēi
Accusative τὸν Τῑρῐδᾱ́την
tòn Tīridā́tēn
Vocative Τῑρῐδᾶτᾰ
Tīridâta
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Τιριδάτης (Tiridátis)
  • Latin: Tīridātēs

References
  1. Hinz, Walther (1975) “*tīridāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 237
  2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1708. *Tīridāta-”, 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 326
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