Βαγασάκης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Old Persian *Bagasaka (literally “Remembering God/the gods”)[1][2].
Proper noun
Βαγασάκης • (Bagasákēs) m (genitive Βαγασάκου); first declension
- A male given name from Old Persian: Bagasaces, a Persian general
Inflection
First declension of ὁ Βαγασάκης; τοῦ Βαγασάκου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Βαγασάκης ho Bagasákēs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Βαγασάκου toû Bagasákou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Βαγασάκῃ tôi Bagasákēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Βαγασάκην tòn Bagasákēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Βαγασάκη Bagasákē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Βαγασάκης (Vagasákis)
- → Latin: Bagasacēs
Further reading
- Βαγασάκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
References
- Hinz, Walther (1975) , “*bagasaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 58
- Tavernier, Jan (2007) , “4.2.282. *Bagasaka-”, 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 139