Σφενδαδάτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Median *Spantadātaʰ (“given/created by the sacred entity”).[1][2]
Proper noun
Σφενδαδάτης • (Sphendadátēs) m (genitive Σφενδαδάτου); first declension
- A male given name from Old Median: Sphendadates
- 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 | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Σφενδαδάτης ho Sphendadátēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Σφενδαδάτου toû Sphendadátou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Σφενδαδάτῃ tôi Sphendadátēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Σφενδαδάτην tòn Sphendadátēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Σφενδαδάτᾰ Sphendadáta | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Σφενδαδάτης (Sfendadátis)
- → Latin: Sphendadatēs
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895) , “Spentōdāta”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 308
References
- Hinz, Walther (1975) , “*spntadāta-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 227
- 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