Pasargadae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pasargadae, from Ancient Greek Πασαργάδαι (Pasargádai), ultimately from Old Median *Pāθragadā- (literally “protective mace”).

Proper noun

Pasargadae

1. An ancient city of Persia, a capital of the Achaemenid Empire.

Translations

ancient city of Persia

• Arabic: باسارغاد
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帕薩爾加德／帕萨尔加德

• French: Pasargades f
• Greek: Πασαργάδες (Pasargádes)

  Ancient: Πασαργάδαι (Pasargádai)

• Hebrew: פסארגאדה
• Italian: Pasargade f
• Korean: 파사르가다에 (pasareugada'e)
• Persian: پاسارگاد (fa) (pâsârgâd)
• Polish: Pasargady nvir
• Portuguese: Pasárgada f
• Russian: Пасарга́ды (ru) f pl (Pasargády)
• Spanish: Pasargada

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πασαργάδαι (Pasargádai).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈsar.ɡa.dae̯/, [päˈs̠ärɡäd̪äe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈsar.ɡa.de/, [päˈs̬ärɡäd̪e]

Proper noun

Pasargadae f pl (genitive Pasargadārum); first declension

1. Pasargadae

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Pasargadae
Genitive	Pasargadārum
Dative	Pasargadīs
Accusative	Pasargadās
Ablative	Pasargadīs
Vocative	Pasargadae
Locative	Pasargadīs

Descendants

• French: Pasargades
• Italian: Pasargade
• → English: Pasargadae

References

• “Pasargadae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pasargadae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.