Πασαργάδαι

Πασαργάδαι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Old Median Pāθragadā- (literally “protective mace”)[1], from *pāθra- (“protection”) + *gadā- (“mace”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pá.sár.ɡá.dai̯/ → /ˈpaˈsarˈɣa.ðɛ/ → /ˈpaˈsarˈɣa.ðe/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pá.sár.ɡá.dai̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpaˈsarˈɡa.dɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpaˈsarˈɣa.ðɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpaˈsarˈɣa.ðe/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpaˈsarˈɣa.ðe/

Proper noun

Πασαργᾰ́δαι • (Pasargádai) f pl (genitive Πασαργᾰδῶν); first declension

1. Pasargadae

Declension

First declension of αἱ Πασαργᾰ́δαι; τῶν Πασαργᾰδῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ Πασαργᾰ́δαι hai Pasargádai
Genitive	τῶν Πασαργᾰδῶν tôn Pasargadôn
Dative	ταῖς Πασαργᾰ́δαις taîs Pasargádais
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς Πασαργᾰ́δᾱς tā̀s Pasargádās
Vocative	Πασαργᾰ́δαι Pasargádai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πασαργάδες (Pasargádes)
• Latin: Pasargadae
• Persian: پاسارگاد‎

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
• Πασαργάδαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

1. Tavernier, Jan (2007) 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 392