Ζαμάσφης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median *Jāmāspa.

Proper noun

Ζαμάσφης • (Zamásphēs) m (genitive Ζαμάσφου); first declension

1. a male given name from Old Median: Jamasp, a Sasanian king

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ζαμάσφης; τοῦ Ζαμάσφου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ζαμάσφης ho Zamásphēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ζαμάσφου toû Zamásphou
Dative	τῷ Ζαμάσφῃ tôi Zamásphēi
Accusative	τὸν Ζαμάσφην tòn Zamásphēn
Vocative	Ζαμάσφη Zamásphē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ζαμάσφης (Zamásfis)
• → Latin: Zamasphēs

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “J̌amāspa”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109