Τιριδάτης

Τιριδάτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tiː.ri.dǎː.tɛːs/ → /ti.riˈða.tis/ → /ti.riˈða.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tiː.ri.dǎː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ti.riˈda.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ti.riˈða.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ti.riˈða.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ti.riˈða.tis/

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