Ῥαδαμασις
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Sarmatian Scythian *Ratama, from an older Scythian *fratama (“noble”),[1] or from a Scythian cognate of Old Persian *Rādamaiθa.[2][3]
Proper noun edit
Ῥαδαμασις • (Rhadamasis) m (genitive Ῥαδαμασιου); second declension
- a male given name from Scythian: Rhadamasis
Descendants edit
- Greek: Ῥαδαμασις (Rhadamasis)
- → Latin: Rhadamasis
References edit
- ^ Rüdiger Schmitt (ed.), Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, 417–444. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1989, p. 241
- ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*rādamaiθa-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 195
- ^ Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1323. *Rādamēθa-”, 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 277