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Τιραῖος

Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old Persian *Tīraya.[1][2]

Proper noun edit

Τιραῖος • (Tiraîos) m (genitive Τιραίου); second declension

  1. a male given name from Old Persian: Tiraeus, name of two kings of Characene

Inflection edit

Second declension of ὁ Τιραῖος; τοῦ Τιραίου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Τιραῖος
ho Tiraîos
Genitive τοῦ Τιραίου
toû Tiraíou
Dative τῷ Τιραίῳ
tôi Tiraíōi
Accusative τὸν Τιραῖον
tòn Tiraîon
Vocative Τιραῖε
Tiraîe
Notes:

Descendants edit

  • Greek: Τιραῖος (Tiraîos)
  • → Latin: Tiraeus

References edit

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*tīraya-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 237
  2. ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1706. *Tīraya-”, 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: “326”

Further reading edit

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