Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μασίστιος (Masístios).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Masistius m sg (genitive Masistiī or Masistī); second declension

  1. A Persian leader of the cavalry

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Masistius
Genitive Masistiī
Masistī1
Dative Masistiō
Accusative Masistium
Ablative Masistiō
Vocative Masistī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References edit

  • Masistius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray